From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 18 13:10:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D938814F5F for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:10:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA29799; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:11:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:11:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199908182011.QAA29799@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Amancio Hasty Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive In-Reply-To: <199908182004.NAA01623@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199908181955.NAA21794@panzer.kdm.org> <199908182004.NAA01623@rah.star-gate.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue : > open("pci0:10:0", .....) Don't be silly. > On the kernel side, I hope that the pci code can translate a bus enumeration > to an actual major , minor device. No, it knows nothing about special files, nor should it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message