devinfo(3) problem...

[Daniel Rudy]

At about the time of 10/25/2005 12:50 PM, victor cruceru stated the
following:
> Hi Daniel,
> Yes, this is the fix. And yes, I think that the bug was reported (at
> least on a mailing list...)
> BTW: I dare to suggest to fully upgrade your system to the "latest"
> 6.0, it is a huge step forward from 5.4. Before doing this you may
> want to give it a try by booting from a CD and check  that your hw is
> fully functional (and detected).

For stability reasons, I don't run the absolute latest software.  When
6.x comes out, I'll wait awhile for the bugs to be worked out before I
migrate to it.  As for hardware, I tend to run FreeBSD on older
hardware, so I don't think that there will be a problem with the
hardware being properly detected.

> To check if it is your mistake or another bug in libdevinfo, you may
> want to run the associated tool (man -k devinfo).
> Hope this helps.
> 

Actually, the devinfo tool was working the whole time.  I tried the
devinfo tool before I decided to use the libdevinfo.so library.  I've
tested it with my code and it is working now with that one line of
additional code.

> On 10/25/05, Daniel Rudy <dr2867 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
>>At about the time of 10/24/2005 7:28 AM, victor cruceru stated the
>>following:
>>
>>>Daniel,
>>>What is the OS version you are using when this is happening?
>>>Did you try to update the libdevinfo (using cvsup for example) to a
>>>newer version?
>>>I think that under the original 5.4 it is a bug in devinfo(4) with the
>>>described behaviour below.
>>
>>I'm running 5.4-RELEASE.
>>
>>When you mentioned that it might be a bug, I went and looked at
>>/usr/src/lib/libdevinfo/devinfo.c using the cvs web depository.  I found
>>that devinfo_generation = 0 was added to the end of the devinfo_free
>>function starting at line 367.  I added the code and recompiled just
>>that library, and now everything seems to be working ok, except now I'm
>>getting a bunch of garbage on the serial number of the USB flash drive.
>> I'm not sure if it's my code, or if it's a bug in the library.
>>
>>--
>>Daniel Rudy
>>
> 
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Daniel Rudy