NAME
devices — file of driver information for insf, mksf, lssf
DESCRIPTION
The
devices
file contains a description of
I/O
drivers, pseudo-drivers, hardware addresses
and block/character major numbers.
It is created by
uxgen
(see
uxgen(1M)).
This file normally resides in the directory
/etc.
This is an
ASCII
file consisting of zero or more lines
where each line is terminated by a new-line character.
Each line begins with a name which normally represents an
I/O
driver or pseudo-driver.
Tokens are separated by white space.
Each parameter in the line is preceded by a keyword.
All parameters are optional.
The keywords are:
lu,
address,
b_major,
and
c_major.
representing logical unit number, hardware address,
block major number, character major number, respectively.
Parameters can appear in any order after the name;
however, they must be directly preceded by their keyword.
The following lines represent typical entries in a
devices
file:
cn c_major 0
disc0 lu 0 address 28.0.0 b_major 0 c_major 4
disc0 lu 1 address 28.0.2 b_major 0 c_major 4
AUTHOR
devices
was developed by HP.
