Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:40:02 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall installUpgrade.c Message-ID: <20070606074002.GE1834@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <71022.1181113051@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200706061141.04765.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <71022.1181113051@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:57:31AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200706061141.04765.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel O'Connor" writes
> :
>
> >On Wednesday 06 June 2007 07:44, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >> : '$1~/\\dev\\/(aacd|ad|afd|amrd|ar|da|idad|ipsd|mfid|mlxd|twed)/ &&
> >> : \ $2~/\\/$/ {print substr($1, 1, index($1, \"s\") - 1)}'
> >> : /etc/fstab`");
> >> :
> >> : where the regex is built from every device name in device_names
> >> : (which even then doesn't cater for GEOM where devices might be
> >> : called anything). This is something that would require a build
> >> : tool, which is why I haven't done it yet.
> >>
> >> "mmcsd" is also a disk.
> >
> >Why not iterate over the output of sysctl -n kern.disks?
>
> Wrong answer.
>
> Right answer: Why not read it from sysctl kern.geom.confxml
That sounds like the right thing to do, but that sysctl returns nothing
on my RELENG_6 system; why would that be?
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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