Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/gnu/i386/isa dgb.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980421004024.20470D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199804210659.HAA12963@awfulhak.org>
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Basically I supply the methods and it's up to each driver writer to
supply the policy. I really don't care how they are named.
you could even call them dgbX/X or locked/dgbX.X initial/dgbX.X
or:
dgbX.X/tty
dgbX.X/locked
dgbX.X/initial
dgbX.X/cua
that would work just as well.
or even:
/dev/dgbX/portX/locked
or /dev/dgbX/locked/portX
...
it's up to you.. :-) (helpful aren't I?)
> What's the rationale behind the new names ?
>
> dgbN.N
> idgbN.N
> ldgbN.N
> dgbcuaN.N
> idgbcuaN.N
> ldgbcuaN.N
>
> I prefer these names to the old {cua,tty}D* ones as they're more
> intuitive, but maybe they ought to be
>
> dgbttydN
> dgbttyidN
> dgbttyldN
> dgbcuaaN
> dgbcuaiaN
> dgbcualaN
>
> so that they're also a bit more consistent with sio ?
>
> Anyone
use subdirectories for special ones?
dgbX.tty[a-p]On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Brian Somers wrote:
dgbX/locked/port[a-p]
dgbX/initial/port[a-p]
dgbX.cua[a-p]
someone with more flair for naming could think up a
good naming convention that would allow all the crud names to be hidden
out of /dev.
e.g. /dev/async/dialout-initial/[same name as in /dev]
e.g. /dev/async/dialout-locked/[same name as in /dev]
e.g. /dev/async/incoming-initial/[same name as in /dev]
e.g. /dev/async/incoming-locked/[same name as in /dev]
that would greatly assist in making /dev easier to look at.
julian
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