Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:10:24 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <21846.980781024@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:06:05 EST." <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com>
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In message <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com>, Steve Ames writes: >On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote: >> > 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should I do? >> >> Nothing. With DEVFS, each driver in the kernel creates its own >> entries automatically, so MAKEDEV isn't used. > >Hrm... what about some custom entries or symlinks I may have? >(/dev/cdrom for instance) You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. Create your symlinks in /etc/rc.devfs -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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