From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 11:37:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7634116A419 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:37:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0863513C468 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:37:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2785753waf for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:37:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=IabhixUdzmq3IL6UBspzg40O1lpTArNGn3lCCc5/xRU=; b=DrQL+W11bCVFLJcnFRENaao9LBMB3bxWIrz/0yb3hZrjIq3AADlzCEbvUBNfOqQky3rW7p1HTLzRP8+v6a/7lVTJIIFkaNNJB0tpLNgZM9JooDyAcsO0MDHaZv6EjtJ0Bs2/WD6LEhR2tYX3lMmOy+i4ie0vXFeMLv/TkSsBdzQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=G2086sYoHFzwxAnttjLAtpTJ3DHSUtACcUqvQZf+nRU1lsJ6ORetkQ+L9SIjAPuOEgomhYJaZGylvyoddO3uze88jP1elmO4l1qpulA+VmprNFAlNUf0G/6m0zwl3Ykfj5e+eJqH774tiLDjX2wDDYoO7MBxWDAr1B8/5Zjo82w= Received: by 10.115.46.9 with SMTP id y9mr9686938waj.1192619284926; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.67.19 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:08:04 +0800 From: "Adrian Chadd" Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com To: "John Baldwin" In-Reply-To: <200710151510.35000.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200710111741.34992.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200710151216.36509.jhb@freebsd.org> <3E7A944C-6182-41A1-8881-C4B94428B65A@mac.com> <200710151510.35000.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ff2f01b6242ace32 Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New-bus unit wiring via hints.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:37:22 -0000 On 16/10/2007, John Baldwin wrote: > Hmm, ok. So are you thinking of a registry ala Windows to remember previous > bindings? /dev/ (what Windows does) probably > wouldn't be considered usable by most folks, so you'd have to make aliases, > but then you are back to how do "wire" the aliases? And how should the > kernel figure out which devices are console devices? Sounds like /devices vs /dev under Solaris.. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org