kern/85975: devfs does not create entries when removable media is inserted

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

The following reply was made to PR kern/85975; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/85975: devfs does not create entries when removable media is inserted 
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:24:05 +0200

 In message <200509111414.j8BEEmA6002696 at curry.mchp.siemens.de>, Andre Albsmeier
  writes:
 
 >The /dev/da10s1 entry is created after opening /dev/da10
 >for writing(!) using open(2) in a small C programme.
 
 	true > /dev/da10
 
 would have done it for you.
 
 yes, this is a known problem and it requires polling removable
 media drives to solve it.  It's been put on the back-burner until
 CAM gets its SMP makeover.
 
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