From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 20:59:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11092 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA11082 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA23211 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Thu, 28 Jan 1999 05:57:05 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id XAA03458; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:12:18 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199901272212.XAA03458@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: <199901272124.NAA15248@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Jan 27, 99 01:24:01 pm" To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:12:18 +0100 (CET) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.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 As Archie Cobbs wrote... > 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 Yeagh... what is wrong with ed0, de0, fxp0 etc that needs changing? Is this just a matter of taste or is there more to it? I for one don't see any advantage in eth[0-9] style device naming. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message