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Date:      Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:28:55 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
To:        Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.
Message-ID:  <00Apr15.092900est.115218@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000414074858.B18551@virtual-voodoo.com>; from steve@virtual-voodoo.com on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:49:40PM %2B1000
References:  <20000414114155.A61941@twilight.bastard.co.uk> <00Apr14.205835est.115320@border.alcanet.com.au> <20000414074858.B18551@virtual-voodoo.com>

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On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> wrote:
>That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made
>the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well..
>_ALL_. *shrug*

What do you define as `all'?  Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide
SCSI controllers, each with 15 disks - that's da0..da119.  I might
have a big shell (or similar) server that needs a few thousand PTYs.
I could have all sorts of other wierd hardware.  "MAKEDEV all" has to
draw the line somewhere.

Peter


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