Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 12:07:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] related matters Message-ID: <199504231907.MAA27675@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <m0s2ybU-0003voC@TFS.COM> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 23, 95 03:09:00 am
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> 1/time: > it appears that 'time' is not set up at teh time of device probing. > this means that the fields in the device structures that > correspond to mtime, atime and ctime are initialised to > teh epoch (Jan1 1970).. which is obviously NOT one of the > options for the correct value.. > possible work-arounds include: > a/ passing through the whole tree later and 'touching' > each device (yuk). Well, this is exactly what the chmod/own/grp script will do, isn't it ? > I would like to move these two initialisations to be BEFORE the > device initialisations.. Can anyone see what the problems are > with this.. not really... > 3/DEVICES that are never attached. > Some devices are never probed or attached in the same way that > (say) a serial port is.. An example of this is /dev/mem. > I would like to either > a/ add a special table of such devices > at the beginning of autoconf or somewhere, so that > they can have entries placed in the devfs for them.. We already have a TEXT_SET(pseudo_set,) that should be used. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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