Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:20:00 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r195534 - in head: etc/mtree include lib/libcam sbin/camcontrol share/man/man4 sys/cam sys/cam/ata sys/cam/scsi sys/conf sys/dev/advansys sys/dev/ahci sys/dev/aic7xxx sys/dev/amd sys/de... Message-ID: <200907131120.01016.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4A56FC7C.8060107@samsco.org> References: <37131.1247214217@critter.freebsd.dk> <4A56FC7C.8060107@samsco.org>
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On Friday 10 July 2009 4:31:56 am Scott Long wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <200907100818.n6A8I8p1011853@svn.freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes: > > > >> ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes. > > > > It there a particular good reason why we insist on making this > > silly mistake every five years ? > > > > I am pretty sure you were around when Justin won friends by renaming > > the SCSI disk devices ? > > > > 1. I clearly stated that the name is experimental and that a change in > the future is possible. > > 2. If the name does change, and if it changes to either 'ad' or 'da', it > can't happen until the newbus stuff is done first. I desperately need > help with that, btw, starting with removing the need for Giant from > newbus. Contact myself and/or Warner for details. > > 3. Exposing driver name details as the primary handle for users is > something that I disagree with, and I'd ultimately like to see every > direct-access block device in the system be called 'disk'. Or "phk". > Or "bde" for all I care =-) > > 4. While feelings may have been hurt 12 years ago, life did, in fact, go > on. Actaully, if all you want is a unified name you can use unrdr (or whatever it is called) to manage the daX unit number namespace without having to have all of new-bus to do that for you. -- John Baldwin
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