Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:25:13 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: soc-victor@freebsd.org, Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: devinfo(3) problem... Message-ID: <200510261425.14759.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <435FBA42.1070604@pacbell.net> References: <49402550510240728y555979c9i2fe4adc73137a1e7@mail.gmail.com> <49402550510251250g66a89037q9a1eb3bdbedf94c3@mail.gmail.com> <435FBA42.1070604@pacbell.net>
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On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:17 pm, Daniel Rudy wrote: > At about the time of 10/25/2005 12:50 PM, victor cruceru stated the > > following: > > Hi Daniel, > > Yes, this is the fix. And yes, I think that the bug was reported (at > > least on a mailing list...) > > BTW: I dare to suggest to fully upgrade your system to the "latest" > > 6.0, it is a huge step forward from 5.4. Before doing this you may > > want to give it a try by booting from a CD and check that your hw is > > fully functional (and detected). > > For stability reasons, I don't run the absolute latest software. When > 6.x comes out, I'll wait awhile for the bugs to be worked out before I > migrate to it. As for hardware, I tend to run FreeBSD on older > hardware, so I don't think that there will be a problem with the > hardware being properly detected. FYI, I merged that fix back to RELENG_5 a while ago, so it will be fixed in 5.5 as well as 6.0. > > To check if it is your mistake or another bug in libdevinfo, you may > > want to run the associated tool (man -k devinfo). > > Hope this helps. > > Actually, the devinfo tool was working the whole time. I tried the > devinfo tool before I decided to use the libdevinfo.so library. I've > tested it with my code and it is working now with that one line of > additional code. Yes, devinfo(1) only traverses the tree once, so it didn't run into this bug. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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