From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 17 10:27:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C65A1500B for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id DAA28456; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:21:24 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:14:08 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" , " =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? References: <41614.921678583@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I think you are missing the point. We will not chuck the old > wd* driver until people have crashed all MFM, RLL, ESDI and !ATA > IDE drives. > > So we WANT to be able to tell the difference... The point here is just naming. Right now, we have: wd0, ... ad0, ... da0, ... People are asking for: wd0, ... da0, ... Ie, join ad and da namespaces. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What happened?" "It moved, sir!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message