site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On 19/12/2007, at 10:35 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: Given that subdirectories in /dev are not supported, and may be removed, if we end up needing to do that for some technical reason, it's probably better to just go that route on both 10.4 and 10.5 instead. This is probably the approach we will end up taking... just have to actually do it :) Oi! That's my code you'd be ripping out! ;o) Terry, Sam _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com On Dec 13, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Sam Vaughan wrote: On 14/12/2007, at 7:05 AM, Terry Lambert <tlambert@apple.com> wrote: The reason for the subdirectories in the first place was to allow LUNs to be identified by the port and node WWNs on the host and RAID controller that uniquely described their path on the fibre channel network. The WWNs are too long to include in the one devfs node name, so the only option is to use a hierarchy. Subdirectories do not remove the node name length limit. I just got a chance to try devfs_make_node() again on Leopard and it still allows long path hierarchies just as it used to: $ find /dev/Curiosity -name Leopard -exec ls -l {} \; cr--r----- 1 root operator 17, 0 Dec 20 12:30 /dev/Curiosity/ got/the/better/of/me/so/I/dusted/off/some/old/code/to/try/a/deep/dev/ hierarchy/on/Leopard $ smime.p7s