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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:23:38 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@mass.dis.org
Subject:   Re: exporting device info via sysctl ? 
Message-ID:  <200110162223.f9GMNcr03750@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:08:52 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011016160717.12283F-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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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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