From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 27 18:27:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA10816 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 18:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10809 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 18:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA01652; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:33:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970427212656.00bc7980@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:26:58 -0400 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" , Sales From: dennis Subject: Re: pci probes with multiple "units" (MORE) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:56 AM 4/28/97 +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > >On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Sales wrote: > >> A suggestion: >> >> When pci devices are probed, the O/S prints out something similar >> to this: >> >> eth0 rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:17 >> eth1 rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:18 > >Has ET Inc *really* called its synch serial card devices 'eth'? Isn't >that a recipe for customer confusion? What are they called in Linux, >where all ethernet cards are 'eth'? > they are called ets? in Linux......eth (for et hdlc) makes sense...Linux is the only OS that calls all ethernet drivers the same name..so lets put the blame where it belongs....probably should be sync0 or something stupid like that, but I can see conforming to the moronics of the Linux community. The driver name should tell you what kind of hardware you have, as it the unix *way*....with linux you dont have a damn clue what you have in there. dennis > >Danny > >