Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:42:38 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <20000728154238.D71137@ywing.creative.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20000728150143.A5518@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:01:43PM %2B0200 References: <20000727094015.B71137@ywing.creative.net.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007271844460.59725-100000@beppo.feral.com> <20000728110827.A3470@freebie.demon.nl> <20000728123730.C71137@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000728150143.A5518@freebie.demon.nl>
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: [snip] > > > > same fabric. > > > > > > Yep.. and that is what you really want. > > > > So why not just call make_dev with the wwnXXXXXX as the device name ? > > (Assuming that the device nodes exist in /dev, I don't see this as being > > a problem even now, and if you wanted to you could make a script to query > > the FC controllers in your system and create devices in /dev/ (or /dev/dsk/, > > /dev/fc/, whatever you wanted ..) > > Other than that 64/128 bit WWNs are a royal pain in daily use this should > work. Well, figuring out what data should be used to construct a device name is up to the driver, right? :-) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Now 17-year-olds can't play a _video game_ <adrian@FreeBSD.org> because its called violent - and real violence is still called dinner. -- jamie@mccarthy.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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