Sheesh, maybe back in the 4.4 days? I recommend the following link the gives some background as part of the implementation of the DEVFS that occurred back in the early 90s.
http://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/bsdcon/full_papers/kamp/kamp_html Also, see introduction to chapter 14 in the Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch14.html Patrick Coming to you from deep inside Fortress Mahan > On Jan 28, 2016, at 2:48 PM, jdow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2016-01-28 14:33, Patrick Mahan wrote: >>> On 1/27/16 1:23 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: >>> On 27/01/16 11:13, jdow wrote: >>>> Fascinating. I made a bad "assumption" about network devices. It seems they >>>> are created dynamically without any presence in /dev. >>> >>> IIRC, *BSD provides /dev nodes for network devices which the user-space can >>> use for configuring it and such. But it's many years since I played with >>> FreeBSD, so my memory is scarce. >> >> Nope, BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc) do not show any network devices under /dev. >> And >> kernel device configuration is done via sysctl commands as opposed to using >> /sysfs in linux. >> >> Patrick Mahan > > Was that true a decade and a half ago give or take a little? > > {^_^}
