Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:34:13 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with MAKEDEV. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000414183306.87696A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <00Apr15.092900est.115218@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> wrote: > >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made > >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well.. > >_ALL_. *shrug* > > What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide > SCSI controllers, each with 15 disks - that's da0..da119. I might > have a big shell (or similar) server that needs a few thousand PTYs. > I could have all sorts of other wierd hardware. "MAKEDEV all" has to > draw the line somewhere. Sure. What's the point of having both std and all, though? How much does it hurt to have a few extra device files kicking around? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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