Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:48:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS newbie... Message-ID: <20010130114848.B48269@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <21846.980781024@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:10:24PM %2B0100 References: <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com> <21846.980781024@critter>
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On Monday, 29 January 2001 at 16:10:24 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com>, Steve Ames writes: >> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >>> >>> On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote: >>>> 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should I do? >>> >>> Nothing. With DEVFS, each driver in the kernel creates its own >>> entries automatically, so MAKEDEV isn't used. >> >> Hrm... what about some custom entries or symlinks I may have? >> (/dev/cdrom for instance) > > You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there. What is the reason for this? How does a program or script know whether the system is running DEVFS or not? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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