Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:45:31 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple cd devices Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912310141580.4996-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912310000420.354-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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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
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