Devd event from GEOM?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Jan 25 09:09:17 PST 2005


In message <20050125.100128.85358998.imp at harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>> We already have the type field in cdevsw, that's what FIODTYPE returns.
>
>Is there some way we could export that to userland without having to
>open the device?

devfs could relay it to devd along with the name.

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