Re: UART question

Mouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>> The benefit of having only present devices under /dev is just
>>> immense!
>> It is?  What is the benefit?  [...]
> What's the benefit of providing accurate information on the system?

Why would you look at /dev for that?

I would look in /var/run/dmesg.boot.  That also provides more detailed
information; for example, having wd0* in /dev/ doesn't tell you whether
it's behind a wdc at pcmcia or an ahcisata at pci or a wdc at isa or
what; dmesg does, and also lists things, like network interfaces, that
don't have /dev nodes at all.

If I had a non-human-layer use for that information, I'd be inclined to
write an autoconffs or some such that exports the autoconf device tree
to userland.

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