From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 01:12:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA12286 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:12:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12277 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:12:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA00826; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:15:06 GMT Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:15:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Leif Neland cc: Archie Cobbs , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 28 Jan 1999, 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. Unfortunately network devices aren't represented in /dev on BSD systems. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message