From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 21 13:45:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21C537B401; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9LKvRi01189; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200110212057.f9LKvRi01189@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , Robert Watson , Peter Wemm , Luigi Rizzo , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exporting device info via sysctl ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:34:32 MDT." <200110212034.f9LKYW761949@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:57:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <200110162223.f9GMNcr03750@mass.dis.org> Mike Smith writes: > : devinfo is probably worthy of a junior hacker project; it needs a > : manpage and some extensions, as well as some fixes (eg. it doesn't deal wel > l > : with shared resources). > > and it doesn't tell you that devices are in the tree, but not > attached. :-( You mean it doesn't tell you about device instances with unattached drivers? Yeah, its view of the tree is a bit simplistic; there were a lot of things I decided were "too hard" for the first iteration. And now I don't really have time to work on it anymore. 8( -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message