device_allocate(1M)

Name

device_allocate - enable and disable device allocation

Synopsis

svc:/system/device/allocate:default

Description

The device_allocate service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:

svc:/system/device/allocate:default

An administrator with the Devices Security Rights Profile can enable or disable this service to provide for or remove the device allocation functionality as described in allocate(1) .

Examples

Example 1 Enabling Device Allocation

The following command enables device allocation.

# svcadm enable svc:/system/device/allocate:default

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Interface Stability Volatile

See also

allocate(1), deallocate(1) , list_devices(1), devfsadm(1M), svcadm(1M), attributes(5) , smf(5)