On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> Jeremy Brown here at sgi is working on adding raw device names in devfsd
> -- basically, devfsd would create all the raw device names using the
> akward mechanism currently available and then users would not have to
> worry about this.
>
> I cc'd him on this message because I am not sure the timeline for this,
> but I think we want to get it into our 1.4 product which is tentatively
> scheduled for August release.
ok, great to hear - do you have a planned layout (by means of where do they
appear in the devfs), or will the manich schme something like rdisc for
a raw disc (which will probably the easiest for apps (just add an 'r' to the
selected interface).
> > > so what's the best way to include raw disc access to the devfs?
> > > is the raw module just not registering itself (the rawctl device),
> > > or am i missing something?
> >
> > The raw device isn't registering itself. Someone should write a patch
> > and send it to Linus/Alan and Cc me.
so since jeremy is already working on this, i guess it would be just overhead
to write a patch by myself.
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Thomas Mirlacher Student of ComputerScience, University of Salzburg
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