Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:24:01 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <199901272124.NAA15248@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901271341260.95594-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Jan 27, 99 01:56:01 pm"
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Doug Rabson writes: > And another thing. Why can't we use a non-driver-specific name for the > disk? Most users simply don't care whether the driver was fd, wfd, wd or > anything. They just want to get to their files without any fuss. I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could do using netgraph, with some work). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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