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To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: exporting device info via sysctl ? 
Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>,
	Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:57:27 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:44:36 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200110212057.f9LKvRi01189@mass.dis.org> Mike Smith writes:
: > 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.

Yes.  If a driver is in the tree, it reports it, even if it is
unattached :-(.

Warner

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