Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:11:07 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: leif@neland.dk (Leif Neland) Cc: archie@whistle.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <199901280711.AAA57155@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901280807390.11164-100000@arnold.neland.dk> from Leif Neland at "Jan 28, 99 08:09:02 am"
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Leif Neland wrote... > > > 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. How are you going to do that, when network drivers don't have device nodes? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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