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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:09:09 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
Cc:        imp@bsdimp.com
Subject:   Re: Devd event from GEOM? 
Message-ID:  <88226.1106672949@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:01:28 MST." <20050125.100128.85358998.imp@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20050125.100128.85358998.imp@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>> We already have the type field in cdevsw, that's what FIODTYPE returns.
>
>Is there some way we could export that to userland without having to
>open the device?

devfs could relay it to devd along with the name.

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