From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 21:21:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13339 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:21:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13334 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:21:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29364; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:51:00 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901272212.XAA03458@yedi.iaf.nl> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:59:52 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@nlsystems.com, (Archie Cobbs) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Jan-99 Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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. Well, for one its sucks trying to get newbies to work out what their network card is called.. Also the eth[0..x] thing means you can replace your ethernet card with a new one of a different type without having to look through your config code for references to ed0 or whatever. Another thing.. we get to be more Linux like, which is a good thing, right? *duck* --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message