Re: config(5) break down

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:57:53PM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:16:02AM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Sverre Froyen 
> > <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > Could this be resolved by adding a "get label" ioctl that could be used 
> > > on any
> > > device? ?It might return a descriptive string from the device driver / 
> > > config
> > > file.
> > 
> > That's part of the plan of "my devfs".
> 
> yuck.  One of the nice things about having symlinks, instead of requiring a 
> new
> ioctl, is that you don't need any special tool to see how things are connected
> together: you can just use ls.

I know I know...  I meant "my devfs" would support lookup-by-label.  I just
overlooked the "ioctl" part.

Masao

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