Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:15:02 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple cd devices (MAKEDEV) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912311509230.2014-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19991231171314.A92878@yedi.iaf.nl>
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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
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