From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 13:24:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12626 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12619 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA21448; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:24:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma021442; Wed, 27 Jan 99 13:24:01 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id NAA15248; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:24:01 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199901272124.NAA15248@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Jan 27, 99 01:56:01 pm" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:24:01 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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