From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 25 5:16:44 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A91D37B401; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuvia.demon.co.uk (thuvia.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E009743E42; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (dotar.thuvia.org [10.0.0.4]) by phaidor.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9PCGQcF049328; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:16:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PCGPH5068437; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:16:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@dotar.thuvia.org) Received: (from mark@localhost) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9PCGJtO068434; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:16:19 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:16:19 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <200210251216.g9PCGJtO068434@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <16353.1035544314@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c Cc: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah), Takahashi Yoshihiro , bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Poul-Henning Kamp > Date: Fri 25 Oct, 2002 > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c > In message <200210251102.g9PB2jwM066925@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine writes: > > >/dev/motherboard/pcibus/0/pcib/0/pci/0/7/0/ahc/0/0/0/0/da/0/4/a/kernel, > >anyone? :-) > > You didn't get that right, you need to specify the type of partitioning > and the correct path to your kernel: > ....da/0/mbr/4/bsd/a/boot/kernel/kernel I wanted my example to fit on a single line... Seriously, though, there are merits to something like the Solaris /devices and /dev distinction between physical and logical device names (though they still kept the SysV brain damaged /dev names). I don't see a particular need for seperate /devices and /dev directories (unless it simplifies the implementation), but I can envisage /dev/da0a and so on simply being symlinks to device names which encode more of the physical device heirarchy. /dev/da0a -> da0s4a -> ahc0/bus0/target0/lun0/... Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message