Re: Moving away from /dev ?

[OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Subject: Re: Moving away from /dev ?
Date: 19 Apr 1999 14:10:50 -0400

> Basically, we need a call that will return all the valid device names
> that the kernel understands (the list should reflect what is actually
> present on the machine, and not be a list just of particular pieces of
> hardware that might be there).
> 
> It also needs to be possible to tell, for each device, exactly what
> kind of device it is, in some manner that does not cause the device to
> do anything at all.  (Doing device_open/device_get_status/device_close
> would be OK, except that some devices block on open, and many do
> things on close, and there is no guarantee that every device will
> support an appropriate device_get_status type query.)  

  Thank you, the information above is enough for me. Of course, that
is not a high priority, but I'll do unless anyone else is willing to
do.

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