On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 15:03 -0600, Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr. via freebsd- usb wrote: > On 2/18/19 3:26 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > Each devicename has a uniq prefix followed by a uniq unit number. > > So, we just end up dumping ALL device nodes in /dev... > > > > Character device nodes are automatically created. However it is > > possible for user-space applications to create symbolic links > > afterwards in /dev . > > ...and leave it to user-space to create the hierarchy within /dev? > Is > there a technical reason that kernel drivers don't automatically > subscribe to a hierarchy, or is this just historic inertia? It seems > funny to me that such decisions are left to user-space applications. > >
Not to userland applications so much as to sysadmin-controlled configuration which is applied from userland during system startup and when new devices are attached. See the manpage for devfs.conf. >From the kernel side, some subsystems do create a hierarchy (or at least a subdir for a set of related devices), and others don't. There is no system-wide policy about it either way. -- Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
