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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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