Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:38:45 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@nlsystems.com, archie@whistle.com Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <199901281838.TAA00524@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990128155952.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from Daniel O'Connor at "Jan 28, 99 03:59:52 pm"
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As Daniel O'Connor wrote... > On 27-Jan-99 Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually > > > like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could > > Yeagh... what is wrong with ed0, de0, fxp0 etc that needs changing? Is this > > just a matter of taste or is there more to it? I for one don't see any > > advantage in eth[0-9] style device naming. > Well, for one its sucks trying to get newbies to work out what their network card is > called.. Not true IMO. You still need to know what hardware you have before you can build your own kernels etc etc. > Also the eth[0..x] thing means you can replace your ethernet card with a new one of a > different type without having to look through your config code for references to ed0 or > whatever. True. > Another thing.. we get to be more Linux like, which is a good thing, right? *duck* Ducking does not help with todays laser-guided precision ammo ;-) ;-) And to answer your question: the day FreeBSD aims to become like Linux I'm likely to install NT. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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