>From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
>Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:00:46 -0400

>One thing I would like to see on each and every device driver is a
>common IOCTL which will return what _type_ of device it is, a device
>specific name, unit number, etc.  This could also be extended into
>a way of retreiving all known devices, since it could extract the
>data is knows about from the internal softc and put it into a
>"well known" form or something...

Such a method assumes that all devices have a character interface
(/dev/*), and would miss (at least) all network devices.  There are
better ways than IOCTL to access this data.
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