From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 28 22:20:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730B537B698 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:19:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp150.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.150]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0T6Jmc03424; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010129095403.A89648@naver.co.id> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:19:34 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: John Indra Subject: RE: DEVFS newbie... Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote: > I noticed that DEVFS has been the default in GENERIC kernel. I have been > -CURRENT tracker for the past couple of months and things like DEVFS is > still new to me. Thus, a couple of questions arise and I am very glad if > someone want to explain it to me, or maybe point to docs that I should read. > > 1. Say I want to use DEVFS, what should I change? /etc/fstab? Should I nuke > the current /dev? Just put it in your kernel config, init(8) will mount it for you automagically. > 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should I do? Nothing. With DEVFS, each driver in the kernel creates its own entries automatically, so MAKEDEV isn't used. > Thanks... > > /john -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message