From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 10 20:38: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 027A714F4F for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA53426; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:37:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:37:52 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Stephen McKay , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brad Knowles Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! In-Reply-To: <199912110422.VAA00723@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > And as for the device renaming, you didn't have to change anything from > sd->da. The old device names and nodes were supported in most every way. > There were a lot of mis-informed people on the lists who claimed that you > had to change your device names. That was completely untrue, and I > attempted to correct people, but the myth and FUD continued to propagate. Of course the whole idea of changing from sd to da was (in my opinion) rather silly in the first place since it actually didn't achieve anything except to make people wonder how such silliness was allowed to occur. (i.e the pain far outweighed the asthetic gain, because there was some minor pain and the asthetic gain existed in the minds of about 3 people on the planet) It would have hurt absolutely nothing to keep calling them sd0 etc. > > Ken > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message