From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 23:11:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27374 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27351 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id AAA57155; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:11:07 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199901280711.AAA57155@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: from Leif Neland at "Jan 28, 99 08:09:02 am" To: leif@neland.dk (Leif Neland) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:11:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: archie@whistle.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (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 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