From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^ http://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuji (in English) m /
