From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 29 0:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F76A37B422 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA71872; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:46:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Robert Clark Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dot@dotat.at, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, ragnar@sysabend.org Subject: Re: Ideas about network interfaces. References: <200009290636.XAA01285@gte.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 29 Sep 2000 09:46:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: Robert Clark's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:36:23 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Clark writes: > My thought, is that we don't name our disk devices based > on the brand of the scsi controller. Why do we specify > an interface to talk to, based on a brand name. Because the SCSI disk driver does not know about SCSI controllers. It talks to CAM, and CAM passes commands to the SCSI controller, and SCSI controller drivers *do* have different names depending on the brand, so your analogy fails. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message