From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 31 12:15:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485BE15617; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:15:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03528; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:15:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:15:02 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple cd devices (MAKEDEV) In-Reply-To: <19991231171314.A92878@yedi.iaf.nl> 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 On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Why are "certain" devices wildly different than all other ones? I've > > > never encountered that kind of syntax before, and I can't see that it's > > > documented anywhere at all. Certainly, MAKEDEV itself (in it's > > > comments) treats cd* just like all the others, specifying that the number > > > following is a unit number, and *not* a quantity. I don't know when this > > > happened, but it's surely not obvious. Not one word in the handbook, > > > either. > > > > *shrug* This is the only rationality I could think of. Obviously, this > > breaks POLA, so it should be changed (with ample warning). > > As for ample warning: I've seen MAKEDEVs display a list of the devices > they are creating. I think the Tru64 version does this. I myself think this > is a good behaviour (and hope people won't start yelling 'bloat' for once) I'd like to hack about a bit on MAKEDEV, but I was wondering, does sysinstall, in any way, use MAKEDEV? I *don't* want to mess with sysinstall! I think the idea of making MAKEDEV print the devices it's creating ought to be easy enough to hack ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, New Year's Resolution: I | electronics, communications, and will not sphroxify gullible| signal processing. people into looking up | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and fictitious words in the | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha)| dictionary. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message