Tom Peters wrote:
>
> While surfing the border between L1 and L2 test objectives, I stumbled
> over a few things; my report may be a bit late, but since the objectives
> apparently are still in draft:
>
[snip of numbering scheme dilemma]
>
> * In the various objectives on hardware (esp. 2.4.4 "Adding New
> Hardware"; 2.4.3 "Software and Kernel Configuration") I find no mention of
> the understanding and use of the /dev/ system, the new device files (err,
> what is it called again?), or the use of MAKEDEV .
Are you talking about the new devfs file system that changes all the
names? While I believe the system is finally in a somewhat stable state
(it's definitely useable, since I have no files in /dev when the root
partition is mounted via another running system), I don't think it's
widely adopted. Knowledge of this area might be somewhat limited.
If you're talking about the traditional /dev and the need to create
special nodes, at this level, MAKEDEV would not help, since it doesn't
know about _all_ devices, just common ones. New devices must be created
using mknod and a knowledge of the type (char or block, c or b) and the
device major and minor numbers (name is unimportant here, since the
kernel handles it via its major minor). I would expect level 1 to have
general knowledge of MAKEDEV.
>
> * lsdev (mentioned in 2.4.2 "Adding New Hardware" and 2.13.5 "General
> Trouble Shooting") is not universal, maybe a Red Hat ideosyncracy?
lsdev ?? never heard of it (and its not on any of my systems)
>
> * There are frases like "mount/umount" and "swapon/swapoff" (in 2.2.1
> "Operating the Filesystem") that use the directory separator to separate
> different commands: this is confusing, especially since these frases occur
> in lists with full paths to files. Please use something else to separate
> commands, for instance a comma ',' !
I suggest a ; since that's what's used for successive commands on a
command line.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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