From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 23:09:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA26843 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.swimsuit.internet.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26825 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leif@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (leif@localhost) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA11191; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:09:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leif@arnold.neland.dk) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:09:02 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland To: Archie Cobbs cc: Doug Rabson , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: <199901272124.NAA15248@bubba.whistle.com> 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 Wed, 27 Jan 1999, 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 > do using netgraph, with some work). > Just symlink eth0 to which card you like, just as /dev/mixer happens to be a symlink to /dev/mixer1 on my system. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message