From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 18:23:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA16374 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 18:23:36 -0800 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA16364; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 18:23:33 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA02536; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 18:19:12 GMT Message-Id: <199503211819.SAA02536@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6alpha 2/16/95 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lsdev In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 1995 18:08:57 PST." <199503220208.SAA27170@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 18:19:10 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It's a shame that devices don't also have a "class" so that an X window > system config program could determine things like mono or color VGA, or > a network setup program could identify only "network" devices. > > How hard would this be to add? > Probably not hard, it could part of the system mib. So you can access the info via snmp or sysctl.