Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 04:34:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, gibbs@plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence Message-ID: <199802220434.VAA15029@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802212341.QAA29838@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 21, 98 04:38:39 pm
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> >Notice that devices which have not arrived before rc.local can be > >run are a new feature. Therefore, there is no valid argument for > >any "historical procedent" for imminenet (about to arrive but not > >yet arrived) devices. > > This is not true. We have PCMCIA code in the system now. The "historical > precedent" is that you must create the device node before you can use the > device regardless of when it appears. But PCMCIA devices do not get nodes created as they arrive unless you are running devfs. Therefore, an arriving PCMCIA device does not follow the "rules". Only devices create before they exist could have permissions preset. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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