From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 20:31:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF2437B401; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A2743FD7; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 33969526AE; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:01:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:01:52 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20030806033152.GD95375@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030806014141.GI95375@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030806020257.GL95375@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030805.201621.91001367.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3H/ak4H366DvPJM1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030805.201621.91001367.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: simokawa@FreeBSD.org cc: simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/firewire firewire.c firewire.h firewirereg.h fwdev.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 03:31:56 -0000 --3H/ak4H366DvPJM1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 5 August 2003 at 20:16:21 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030806020257.GL95375@wantadilla.lemis.com> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >> On Wednesday, 6 August 2003 at 10:59:39 +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: >>> At Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:11:41 +0930, >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> >>>> On Monday, 4 August 2003 at 20:11:39 -0700, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: >>>>> simokawa 2003/08/04 20:11:39 PDT >>>>> Log: >>>>> Change device name notation. >>>>> - /dev/fw{,mem}X.Y represents the Y'th unit on the X'th bus. >>>>> - /dev/fw{,mem}X is an alias of fw{,mem}X.0 for compatibility. >>>> >>>> Just out of interest, how compatible is this with NetBSD and OpenBSD? >>> >>> As far as I know, they use very different code base from ours. >> >> Yes, I've heard that too, at least in the case of NetBSD. That in >> itself isn't an issue. It would be nice to have some compatibility in >> the way it's used at user level. > > Looking at NetBSD's MAKEDEV from a few days ago shows that NetBSD > doesn't expose firewire nodes as devices to userland. So there's > nothing to be compatible with. Also, I'm not aware of many (any?) > applications that talk directly to the firewire devices, except for > the dumb console replacement that is the primary reason I know > anything at all about firewire :-). I've used Ethernet over firewire. OK, that's not a device node, but an interface address would be useful too. > I'd check the man pages, but I can't seem to find any firewire man > pages in NetBSD current either. I think that firewire is still pretty minimal in NetBSD. It would just be nice not to introduce gratuitous differences. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --3H/ak4H366DvPJM1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/MHaoIubykFB6QiMRAkmJAJ9YSC0YycPSbM3mM15n3gVYfFsjfQCfRLDp VigaIjCuvklMmxOdlYIY1Qg= =7hN1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3H/ak4H366DvPJM1--