From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 12:59:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14293 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:59:26 -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 MAA14283 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:59:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA13558 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:31:52 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id VAA01522; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:04:25 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199901282004.VAA01522@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: <199901281743.JAA19684@pau-amma.whistle.com> from David Wolfskill at "Jan 28, 99 09:43:33 am" To: dhw@whistle.com (David Wolfskill) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:04:24 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG 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 David Wolfskill wrote... > >From: Wilko Bulte > >Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:12:18 +0100 (CET) > > >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. > > It's a matter of whether you want the name to reflect the implementation > vs. the function. > > For someone involved in the details of the implementation, being > (acutely!) aware of those details can be very important. Guilty your honor ;-) My daily work is in supporting customers, so I can really do without mapping 'convenient names' to physical stuff. For an example: look at the Solaris symlink jungle for device naming. > For someone who merely wants to have a certain physical port on the > machine connected to a particular network, that level of detail is not > always appropriate. > > It depends on your focus. Agreed. 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