From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 1 13:51:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE9714CAB; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 13:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA09754; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:51:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:51:36 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple cd devices Message-ID: <20000101155136.C3800@futuresouth.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 01:45:31AM -0500, a little birdie told me that Brian Fundakowski Feldman remarked > 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. FWIW, MAKEDEV for vty's (and pty's too? dunno) works the same. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message