On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:49:53PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote: > Iain Hibbert wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Jeff Rizzo wrote: > > > > > >> I've been working on various things lately to improve the state of > >> wedges and wedge-related things - one of the (valid) complaints is that > >> there is no way to 'nail down' wedge configuration currently. > >> > > > > I don't know if this is pertinent, but I saw some rumour about a devfs in > > the works that would enable you to force certain devices to certain slots. > > > > Would that handle generically what this does specifically or is that a > > different issue? > > Depending on the scope of the devfs, it might well solve this problem. > However, I am neither the person working on devfs, nor am I privy to > whatever progress is or isn't being made. So, rather than wait > indefinitely for something that may not happen, I'm trying to work with > what we've currently got. > > Certainly, I could see devfs removing the need for a lot of this - which > would make me happy. Meanwhile... mjf's chimmed in, indicating something will happen w/ devfs. I've been helping him with it, and wedges are the main reason I want devfs. My thought is something like /dev/wedge/wedgename, and you'd just mount that as normal. There will of course be time to hash this out before we check it in... Take care, Bill
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