git: 269865a8eed2 - main - stand: Update comment about devdesc
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Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 01:47:49 UTC
The branch main has been updated by imp: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=269865a8eed240f572472750451484feccaeeeea commit 269865a8eed240f572472750451484feccaeeeea Author: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-11-05 01:45:27 +0000 Commit: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-11-05 01:46:44 +0000 stand: Update comment about devdesc How devdesc is used is opaque until much code is read. Give a more useful description of the theory behind it here. Sponsored by: Netflix --- stand/libsa/stand.h | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/stand/libsa/stand.h b/stand/libsa/stand.h index 5ffff54c7ca7..3b2627355ed6 100644 --- a/stand/libsa/stand.h +++ b/stand/libsa/stand.h @@ -170,9 +170,14 @@ extern struct devsw netdev; extern int errno; /* - * Generic device specifier; architecture-dependent - * versions may be larger, but should be allowed to - * overlap. + * Generic device specifier; architecture-dependent versions may be larger, but + * should be allowed to overlap. The larger device specifiers store more data + * than can fit in the generic one that's gleaned after parsing the device + * string, or used in some cases to indicate wildcards that match a variety of + * situations based on what's on the drive itself rather than what the progammer + * might know in advance. Information about open files is stored in d_opendata, + * though what's passed into the open routine may differ from what's present + * after the open on some configurations. */ struct devdesc { struct devsw *d_dev;