devinfo(3) problem...

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:17 pm, Daniel Rudy wrote:
> At about the time of 10/25/2005 12:50 PM, victor cruceru stated the
>
> following:
> > Hi Daniel,
> > Yes, this is the fix. And yes, I think that the bug was reported (at
> > least on a mailing list...)
> > BTW: I dare to suggest to fully upgrade your system to the "latest"
> > 6.0, it is a huge step forward from 5.4. Before doing this you may
> > want to give it a try by booting from a CD and check  that your hw is
> > fully functional (and detected).
>
> For stability reasons, I don't run the absolute latest software.  When
> 6.x comes out, I'll wait awhile for the bugs to be worked out before I
> migrate to it.  As for hardware, I tend to run FreeBSD on older
> hardware, so I don't think that there will be a problem with the
> hardware being properly detected.

FYI, I merged that fix back to RELENG_5 a while ago, so it will be fixed in 
5.5 as well as 6.0.

> > To check if it is your mistake or another bug in libdevinfo, you may
> > want to run the associated tool (man -k devinfo).
> > Hope this helps.
>
> Actually, the devinfo tool was working the whole time.  I tried the
> devinfo tool before I decided to use the libdevinfo.so library.  I've
> tested it with my code and it is working now with that one line of
> additional code.

Yes, devinfo(1) only traverses the tree once, so it didn't run into this bug.

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