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Date:      Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:51:50 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r221071 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm/conf sys/cam sys/cam/ata sys/conf sys/geom sys/i386/conf sys/mips/conf sys/modules/cam sys/pc98/conf
Message-ID:  <20110815205150.GA8002@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <201104261701.p3QH1ngd030888@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201104261701.p3QH1ngd030888@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 05:01:49PM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Log:
>    - Add shim to simplify migration to the CAM-based ATA. For each new adaX
>   device in /dev/ create symbolic link with adY name, trying to mimic old ATA
>   numbering. Imitation is not complete, but should be enough in most cases to
>   mount file systems without touching /etc/fstab.
>    - To know what behavior to mimic, restore ATA_STATIC_ID option in cases
>   where it was present before.
>    - Add some more details to UPDATING.

[picking a random ata(4) CAM commit]

Alexander,
What are your plans on updating the ata.4 man page for 9.0-RELEASE?

It still speaks of the old world order and doesn't provide help for folks
trying to convert over.

thanks,
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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