Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:59:15 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912110659.XAA00670@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <199912110553.VAA00494@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 10, 1999 09:53:30 pm"
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Mike Smith 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. > > Changing the device nodes' names was the only sensible thing to do when > everything else that referred to the device by name (source files, kernel > config, boot-time messages) used the new name. Ther Looks like your mail got a little truncated. In any case, yes, it does make more sense to be consistent and use the new names, but what I was getting at is that there were some folks who said things like: "You have to change all your device names to da* in order to use CAM." That isn't true, of course, but it certainly caused some confusion and consternation. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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