Devd event from GEOM?

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:57:03PM -0800, Pete Carah wrote:
> Geom doesn't feed node-creations to devd in 5.3.  This would be VERY useful 
> for letting ordinary non-programmer users access pen drives, among
> other things (floppies come to mind too...).
> (or mount e.g. a pen drive as part of an authentication system where no-one is
> yet logged in, so can't manually mount...)
> 
> umass0 comes in to devd, but this isn't useful for use in "mount".  One 
> needs the disk device nodes.  I suppose one *could* parse dmesg for
> the info (or maybe sysctl) but that smacks of a serious kluge.  (not to
> mention that the slice table isn't represented in dmesg anyhow, and
> practically nothing is in sysctl...)

As a workaround you can parse the camcontrol devlist -v output:
scbus2 on umass-sim1 bus 1:
<General Flash Disk Drive 2.05>    at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,da0)
<General Flash Disk Drive 2.05>    at scbus2 target 0 lun 1 (pass2,da1)
<General Flash Disk Drive 2.05>    at scbus2 target 0 lun 2 (pass3,da2)

umass-sim1 is the sim from umass1.

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