From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 17 1: 0: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875B037B6AB; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:00:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FXU00AKI0WDEO@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 03:00:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA49471; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 02:58:42 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 02:58:41 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: DEVFS In-reply-to: <20000716225342.A6069@cokane.yi.org> To: Coleman Kane Cc: Adrian Chadd , Boris Popov , Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000717025841.C48019@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <4007.963643480@critter.freebsd.dk> <20000715174654.E22865@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000716225342.A6069@cokane.yi.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 |Swap read error. You lose your mind. `------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message