From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 14 22:16:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B70E37B40D for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9F5GbM98836 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:16:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7581380F; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:16:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exporting device info via sysctl ? In-Reply-To: <20011014213916.A50369@iguana.aciri.org> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:16:37 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011015051637.C7581380F@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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).. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message