cvs commit: src/sys/dev/firewire firewire.c firewire.h firewirereg.h fwdev.c

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20030806020257.GL95375 at wantadilla.lemis.com>
            "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Wednesday,  6 August 2003 at 10:59:39 +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
: > At Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:11:41 +0930,
: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
: >>
: >> On Monday,  4 August 2003 at 20:11:39 -0700, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
: >>> simokawa    2003/08/04 20:11:39 PDT
: >>>   Log:
: >>>   Change device name notation.
: >>>   - /dev/fw{,mem}X.Y represents the Y'th unit on the X'th bus.
: >>>   - /dev/fw{,mem}X is an alias of fw{,mem}X.0 for compatibility.
: >>
: >> Just out of interest, how compatible is this with NetBSD and OpenBSD?
: >
: > As far as I know, they use very different code base from ours.
: 
: Yes, I've heard that too, at least in the case of NetBSD.  That in
: itself isn't an issue.  It would be nice to have some compatibility in
: the way it's used at user level.

Looking at NetBSD's MAKEDEV from a few days ago shows that NetBSD
doesn't expose firewire nodes as devices to userland.  So there's
nothing to be compatible with.  Also, I'm not aware of many (any?)
applications that talk directly to the firewire devices, except for
the dumb console replacement that is the primary reason I know
anything at all about firewire :-).

I'd check the man pages, but I can't seem to find any firewire man
pages in NetBSD current either.

Warner