From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 25 14:36:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B66437BAF4 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: (qmail 11614 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2000 21:36:21 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2000 21:36:21 -0000 Message-ID: <397E0855.CEC23FF@integratus.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:36:21 -0700 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? References: <14495.964560129@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > # ls /dev/HW* > # disklabel /dev/HW:BLABLA__2983942394 > /dev/null > # ls /dev/HW* > /dev/HW:BLABLA__2983942394 What is the suggested interface for listing the available (but not currently in use) devices? In the normal /dev way of looking at things, you can get a listing of device names from the directory namespace. Where does that info live in this scheme? -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message