Re: Devd event from GEOM?

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:09:09 +0100
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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Received on Tue Jan 25 2005 - 16:09:17 UTC

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