From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 21 20:34:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08524 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 20:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08519 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 20:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20128; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:34:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd020098; Sat Feb 21 21:34:14 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA15029; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:34:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802220434.VAA15029@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: devfs persistence To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 04:34:10 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, gibbs@plutotech.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802212341.QAA29838@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 21, 98 04:38:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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