Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:58:11 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs Message-ID: <20010306155811.A17828@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <983q8c$18lv$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:01:32PM %2B0000 References: <983i3i$r3m$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <200103062118.f26LI3G11355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <983q8c$18lv$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:01:32PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > The rewind and non-rewind tape device names were changed under > > devfs from rsa0 and nrsa0 to sa0 and nsa0, (which IMHO > > violates POLA). >=20 > They were changed in MAKEDEV long before that. MAKEDEV also provides > 'r' names for compatibility. devfs simply did away with those > compat links. For all kinds of devices, not only the tape drives. MAKEDEV has made sa, etc devices with rsa, etc links in -STABLE for almost ten months now (as you know since you submitted the changes :-). What we really need to do is get all the utilities and docs updated in -STABLE ASAP in hopes of getting a few releases with the right names everywhere under our belt. That should at least help reduce the number of complaints come 5.0-RELEASE time. Obviously, nothing is going to stop them, but preemptive doc and utility updates including ports should go a long way. A preemptive FAQ like "where did /dev/rsa, /dev/nsa, and /dev/esa go?" would probably also be in order. Remember we've got at least six months and by many estimates a whole year to get people to recognize the fact that this change occured. Now's the time to start since we know it is going to confuse people. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6pXmSXY6L6fI4GtQRArjjAKClltdzZxZzsG5ovDzAvTdfvoXsNQCdGHNR Ix8ojdO3hmh2PiPwg90YwSg= =sTYr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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