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List:       netbsd-current-users
Subject:    Re: wedges and what does that mean?
From:       Jason Thorpe <thorpej () shagadelic ! org>
Date:       2006-09-27 23:55:49
Message-ID: 302466B9-2A28-408E-913B-57EEAB420A97 () shagadelic ! org
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On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:41 PM, matthew sporleder wrote:

> It's basically a file that defines which hardware gets called what (my
> bge0 is at /rawdevices/pci1,network/0).  If you cached usb disks in
> there, they would always come back to the same place until you ran a
> tool to clear that cache (devfsadm on solaris) and re-scan all the
> hardware.  This would also allow easy re-ordering of things like
> network cards through probe-ordering and the like.

Won't work for e.g. USB -- the the bus identifiers can change  
dynamically.

-- thorpej

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