Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:13:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive Message-ID: <199908240628.XAA04869@gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net>
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<<On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:04:31 -0700, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> said:
> Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue :
> open("pci0:10:0", .....)
Don't be silly.
> On the kernel side, I hope that the pci code can translate a bus enumeration
> to an actual major , minor device.
No, it knows nothing about special files, nor should it.
-GAWollman
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