devd limitations / automounting removable storage

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1063881095.12179.5.camel at builder02.qubesoft.com>, Doug Rabson write
s:

>I've thought for a long time now that the right way to do this is to
>extend the newbus device tree much further down the hierarchy than it
currently does. Currently the tree stops at the CAM/ATA controller. Both
>of those systems then use their own custom hand-crafted wheels to probe
>for and attach their attached drives. After finding the drives, we hand
>them over to yet another custom hand-crafted wheel (geom) to find the
>partitions.
>
>Surely the right thing would be to use the same wheel (newbus) for all
>the probing, driver auction, device attachment jobs in the kernel. That
>would seemlessly allow devd to receive device notification events for
>geom's leaf partitions in exactly the same way that it receives all
>other notification events.

I'm sorry Doug, I don't belive in "one size fits all" because it
invariably means that it fits nobody at all.

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