From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 30 22:45:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from 1Cust208.tnt1.washington.dc.da.uu.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713BC1551C; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:45:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:45:31 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple cd devices In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence and not hardwiring/controller connection, work is consistent between the kernel and MAKEDEV. If you have 2 cd devices, you have cd0 and cd1, so MAKEDEV accepts "cd2" for "two cd devices". All CD devices work that way. Disks don't, because there is potential for hard-wiring there, and will often be gaps. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message