Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:00:23 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, " =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt" <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? Message-ID: <43236.921697223@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:14:08 %2B0900." <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com>
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In message <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >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. If you want to join anything, go directly to "disk%d" instead. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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