From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 11:32:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29390 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA29385 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:32:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA09524 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:15:12 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA00524; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:38:45 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199901281838.TAA00524@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Connor at "Jan 28, 99 03:59:52 pm" To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:38:45 +0100 (CET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@nlsystems.com, archie@whistle.com X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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