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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:15:03 -0700
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>,
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Subject: Re: New ATA stuff, questions and comment
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> Doug <Doug@gorean.org> writes:
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> > > A device name isn't necessarily the same as a device node, you know.
> >       Actually I do know that, but I've never come across a situation in
> > freebsd where I would call something one thing in my kernel config file
> > and something else in /dev.
> 
> man bpf

	Yes the confusion that the two different names causes (and the consequent
volume of -questions mail on the topic) is an excellent example of why it's
a bad idea. Thanks for the support. :)

Doug


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