Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:59:50 -0500 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS questions. Message-ID: <199809112059.PAA00562@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:29:06 %2B0200." <199809112029.WAA29761@sos.freebsd.dk>
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>In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: >> > Well, I usr DEVFS on all my machines, make it alot easier when fiddeling >> > with device drivers, ie the devices come and go by themselves, no need >> > to fiddle with MAKEDEV, and for that pupose it works very well. >> > The SLICE code OTOH has been in the way too many times to be usefull >> > for me at least. >> >> That's to say that you use DEVFS without SLICE defined? >> >> Hmmm. You must not try to make releases on that box - you don't >> get any entries for /dev/vnX that way and it makes this somewhat >> difficult. :-) > >Yes, the vn driver needs to be taught about devfs... So does the ccd driver. :) I have been wanting this for a while.. Perhaps I will take a look at it. I was somewhat confused at how the slice stuff fits in though. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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