Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 02:58:41 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>, Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <20000717025841.C48019@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <20000716225342.A6069@cokane.yi.org> References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007151908320.51585-100000@lion.butya.kz> <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000716225342.A6069@cokane.yi.org>
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On Sunday, July 16, 2000, Coleman Kane wrote:
> This is a great idea. We need a good, well drawn out description of
> what DEVFS is supposed to accomplish and how we'd like it to work. I
> will be glad to help out, and perhaps we can get some movement on this.
> Personally, I'd like to see DEVFS completely replace the current system
> of nodes in /dev.
That's the point of it, or so I've heard.
> One nice feature would also be to be able to define aliases of certain
> devices, such as cdrom, modem, etc... I suppose these could get handled
> in rc/rc.conf.
Probably using symlinks:
if [ "X$default_modem_device" != "X" ]
then
ln -sf /dev/defaultmodem ${default_modem_device}
fi
if [ "X$default_cdrom_device" != "X" ]
then
ln -sf /dev/cdrom ${default_cdrom_device}
fi
...
I would like to point out that if anyone does this, my advance
suggestion is that you differentiate between data and audio
CDROM.
--
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Swap read error. You lose your mind.
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