Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:51:09 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-device sysctls Message-ID: <2468.1077825069@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:10:37 %2B0100." <xzpbrnllnj6.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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In message <xzpbrnllnj6.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >BTW, the dev tree on my laptop looks like this: > >des@des ~% sysctl dev >dev.nexus0.npx0.%class: npx >dev.nexus0.npx0.%desc: math processor >dev.nexus0.npx0.%driver: npx >dev.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_timer0.%class: acpi_timer >dev.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_timer0.%desc: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz >dev.nexus0.acpi0.acpi_timer0.%driver: acpi_timer Just for the record: Having based this on newbus it only documents hardware-anchored device drivers. I don't know if this is going to be a limitation we will have to address or not, but I think you should reserve the toplevel name "pseudo" or "sw" or similar as a placeholder for non-hardware device drivers, just in case. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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