Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:28:52 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel(8) floppy panic Message-ID: <20020403152852.A41505@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20020403224538.L382-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:46:56PM %2B1000 References: <20020402203559.A25802@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020403202932.T9816-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020403202932.T9816-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020403224538.L382-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, I wrote: > > > ... > > This seems to be a bug in the fd driver. ls -F "works" the first time > > exist. fd0a and fd0c may need to exist for compatibility, but shouldn't. > > fd0b and fd0[d-h] just shouldn't exist. > > Bruce > As Bruce Evans wrote: > This seems to be a bug in the fd driver. ls -F "works" the first time > on nonexistent partitions. But it should only work on devices that > oops: ^ on devices that go through the disk layer > exist. I have not much clues about how make_dev_alias(9) and NAMI lookups are stacked here. I've simply taken phk's code (for the aliases, it should be functionally identical to phk's version, i only had to rewrite the non-alias device creation). > fd0a and fd0c may need to exist for compatibility, but shouldn't. > fd0b and fd0[d-h] just shouldn't exist. Hmm, they all used to be in /dev/MAKEDEV. IMHO, all of them can go away, but i didn't want to force too much of my opinion onto others here. :) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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