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Subject: Re: exporting device info via sysctl ? 
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> > 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 :-). 

devinfo is probably worthy of a junior hacker project; it needs a
manpage and some extensions, as well as some fixes (eg. it doesn't deal well
with shared resources).


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