Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:54:11 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config config.y mkioconf.c Message-ID: <200001231254.MAA01242@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 04:01:09 PST." <200001231201.EAA55405@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> peter 2000/01/23 04:01:09 PST
>
> Modified files:
> usr.sbin/config config.y mkioconf.c
> Log:
> Clean up something in config(8) that has annoyed me for ages. Remove
> the need to specify the unit number of unwired devices. ie: instead
> of saying "device fxp0" we can say "device fxp" which is much closer
> to what it actually means. The former (fxp0) implied something about
> reserving the 0th unit, but it does not and never did - it was a
> figment of config(8)'s imagination that we had to work around..
> "device fxp0" simply means "compile in the fxp device driver", so we
> may as well just write it as "device fxp" which is closer to what it
> really means.
>
> Doing this also saves us from filling up the ioconf.c tables with
> meaningless entries.
Excellent ! That's annoyed me too for some time.
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.40 +16 -12 src/usr.sbin/config/config.y
> 1.60 +5 -1 src/usr.sbin/config/mkioconf.c
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