Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:44:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages) Message-ID: <199809300544.WAA09382@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <199809300512.PAA17386@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:12:56 %2B1000)
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I have scripts that run on multiple operating systems, using sd and st devices. > >I think 'MAKEDEV st0' still works. And, it appears that 'MAKEDEV all' > >will still attempt to create ??st0 devices. Likewise for sd[0-3]. > > Not in -current. > > >I am running a -current SMP of Sat Sep 5 19:58:37 PDT 1998. CVSUP'ed > >about 5 hours earlier. > > > ># ls -l /dev/MAKEDEV > >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30774 May 20 1997 /dev/MAKEDEV* > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ more than 4 months out of date > > Bruce > So, it appears that cvsup does not update MAKEDEV. Well, I have been lucky on that one. It appears that installation support for sd and st disappeared over a year ago. When I have another opportunity to rebuild or restore a FreeBSD system, I will have to manually create sd and st device files. Is this true? That is, unless I use an existing system to bootstrap rebuild or restoration. Earlier, > >On 30-Sep-98 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > I doubt that it would cause much long term heartache. > >Especially since you can use the old names still anyway.. > >(MAKEDEV still makes them AFAIK) > > I'm thinking of removing them from MAKEDEV. Obviously no one uses > MAKEDEV to create them, since it doesn't work. (od works, but sd is > missing from one case list, and st isn't supported.) > > Bruce > But, once DEVFS works with CAM, I guess the only device nodes that will be > supported are the new-name device nodes. (Unless we make a decision to > create both.) > > Ken Is it possible to restore sd and st support just to be compatible with other operating systems? Even if FreeBSD core members do not want them? Is this even a consideration? tomdean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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