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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
Subject: Re: docs/32564: [PATCH] MAKEDEV.8 (i386) - wd# is replaced by ad# 
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The following reply was made to PR docs/32564; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/32564: [PATCH] MAKEDEV.8 (i386) - wd# is replaced by ad# 
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 05:52:46 +0000

 Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> wrote:
 > *** MAKEDEV.8.old Thu Dec 6 19:48:53 2001
 > --- MAKEDEV.8 Thu Dec 6 20:00:11 2001
 
 This patch is corrupt.  I don't know how that came about.  Also, for
 small and clean changes like this, unified diffs are much easier to
 read [1].
 
 > ***************
 > *** 87,97 ****
 > SCSI tape drives
 > .It vty#
 > set of 12 virtual console devices for syscons/pcvt/codrv
 > ! .It wd#
 > .Dq winchester
 > disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL etc.)
 > .It wt#
 > QIC-interfaced (e.g. not SCSI) 3M cartridge tape
 > .El
 > .Sh FILES
 > .Bl -tag -width /dev/xxxx -compact
 > --- 87,103 ----
 > SCSI tape drives
 > .It vty#
 > set of 12 virtual console devices for syscons/pcvt/codrv
 > ! .It ad#
 > .Dq winchester
 > disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL etc.)
 > .It wt#
 > QIC-interfaced (e.g. not SCSI) 3M cartridge tape
 
 This change is good in theory but is largely incomplete; ad# is not
 "winchester disk drives".  There's a similar, but more complete,
 change in the Alpha MAKEDEV.8 which I have merged to the i386 version.
 
 > + .Sh NOTE
 > + Please change
 > + .Dq ad#
 > + to
 > + .Dq wd#
 > + on systems older than FreeBSD 4.3.
 
 I don't particularly like this.  For one, FreeBSD 4.3 used ad# by
 default; wd# is only used on 3.x.  Further, mentioning upgrade quirks
 in a manual page seems somewhat unnatural to me.  This should probably
 be mentioned in UPDATING and/or the release notes if it isn't already.
 
 I'd like to close this PR unless somebody feels strongly that this
 last change should be made.
 
 Thanks.
 
 [1] I realize that this is my opinion, but I'm not alone in this
 preference.

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