New-bus unit wiring via hints..

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 17 04:37:22 PDT 2007


On 16/10/2007, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hmm, ok.  So are you thinking of a registry ala Windows to remember previous
> bindings?  /dev/<some uuid-ish thing but longer> (what Windows does) probably
> wouldn't be considered usable by most folks, so you'd have to make aliases,
> but then you are back to how do "wire" the aliases?  And how should the
> kernel figure out which devices are console devices?

Sounds like /devices vs /dev under Solaris..



Adrian

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