From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 7 1:50:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178CA37B720 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA32012; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:50:32 +1100 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:50:23 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs In-Reply-To: <982uie$cer$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > > > dump.8 and dump(8) both refer explicitly to nsa0 and nrsa0 whereas > > sa0 and nsa0 are the actual device names in -current. The dump sources also refer to only the 'r' devices (_PATH_DEFTAPE is still "/dev/rsa0"). > Then this should be fixed. > The non-'r' device names have been standard in -CURRENT for quite > some time. MAKEDEV only creates 'r'-names for backwards compatibility. The backwards compatibility cruft should have been removed in -current long ago. I removed all 'r' devices from my /dev about a year ago but haven't changed this in MAKEDEV. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message