Review/Test: Pseudo-device unit number management patch

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Feb 18 05:32:29 PST 2004


In message: <39796.1077013415 at critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: Current our handing is that if it disappears, it's gone, if it comes
: back it's probably a new one anyway.

Yes.  If the hardware goes away and comes back, it can be very
difficult to know if you have the same hardware or different
hardware.  This is less true of network cards, but definitely true of
CF cards (which can easily be identical from inspection, but have
different contents).

Warner



More information about the freebsd-current mailing list