On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:44:50PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Well, here are my conclusions. > > 1) > The manpage for devfs.rules should mention that you have to set > > devfs_system_ruleset="yourruleset" > > in /etc/rc.conf . I didn't see it anywhere.
Agreed. I've posted a patch in this thread for that. If there are no comments, I'll send-pr it. <snip> > 3) > There is one kind of thing I cannot do in /etc/devfs.rules, creating > links. So I am still doing this in /etc/devfs.conf (links don't cause > race conditions anyway, I hope). Maybe devd could be used for that. > One would think that "link ttyU0 pilot" would simply be translated to > "ln -s /dev/ttyU0 /dev/pilot" which would simply create the link and it > would work as soon as a ttyU0 device (my PDA) is there. But instead it > checks weather the device exists (of course it doesn't since I didn't > press the hotsync button during boot) and omits the creation of the link. > > So either the behaviour of /etc/rc.d/devfs has to be changed or it has > to be dumped entirely and /sbin/devfs has to implement a way to create > links (the solution I would prefer). And maybe there should be a combination with devd? Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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