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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 06:26:53 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        pjd@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Accessing disks via their serial numbers. 
Message-ID:  <33296.1151303213@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:48:38 CST." <20060625.174838.2140534929.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20060625.174838.2140534929.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:

>If all the dev_t's had a device_t, then we could hang this information
>off of devd.

As nice as this sounds, it just doesn't match reality.  We would have
to create bogus device_t's for pseudo-device drivers, and we would
come up particularly short with things like ggate.

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