Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:08:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exporting device info via sysctl ? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011016160717.12283F-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20011015051637.C7581380F@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I seem to remember a discussion from some time ago about exporting > > device information via sysctl. Given that now there has been > > dynamic sysctl support for a while, the thing would be feasible > > (e.g. dynamically creating an hw.<devname> subtree), > > and possibly useful to get/set some more info on devices. > > > > Has there been any followup on this ? Would people be happy > > to have them ? > > Check out /usr/sbin/devinfo and devinfo(3).. Spiffy, I didn't know about that. However, the devinfo command appears not to have a man page. Would be nice if it could also export a string on what exactly the device is--dmesg is pretty bad for this sort of thing, and devinfo looks a lot better :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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