From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 17:54: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5483437B71C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2U1ruN23774; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:53:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:53:56 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: BSD Blood Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the number behind the driver? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, BSD Blood wrote: :Hello. : While configuring my kernel configuration file, I notice that certain :entries have numbers after the driver and some don't. For example: - : :device psm0 :device da : :My questions are:- :1. What's the number behind the driver? It's a device instance number. If you had more than one than one ps/2 mouse, you'd need to add a a psm1 for the second and so on. (I have no idea if you can actually have more than one ps/2 mouse.) : :2. Why for some entries there are no numbers? Some drivers are smart enough to do the right thing with multiple instances, and for some classes of devices it doesn't matter. Again, don't cross-post. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message