Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:51:36 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple cd devices Message-ID: <20000101155136.C3800@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912310141580.4996-100000@green.dyndns.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912310000420.354-100000@picnic.mat.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912310141580.4996-100000@green.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 01:45:31AM -0500, a little birdie told me that Brian Fundakowski Feldman remarked > The way certain devices, like cd with its monotonically increasing counter > where devices are probed in order and assigned device based on precedence > and not hardwiring/controller connection, work is consistent between > the kernel and MAKEDEV. If you have 2 cd devices, you have cd0 and cd1, > so MAKEDEV accepts "cd2" for "two cd devices". All CD devices work > that way. Disks don't, because there is potential for hard-wiring > there, and will often be gaps. FWIW, MAKEDEV for vty's (and pty's too? dunno) works the same. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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