From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 20:53:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C101065673; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 20:53:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from mail2.timeinc.net (mail2.timeinc.net [64.236.74.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 990A58FC1E; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 20:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.timeinc.net (mail.timeinc.net [64.12.55.166]) by mail2.timeinc.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o67KrnL3008690 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:53:50 -0400 Received: from ws-mteterin.dev.pathfinder.com (ws-mteterin.dev.pathfinder.com [209.251.223.173]) by mail.timeinc.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id o67KrnTm009829; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:53:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4C34E95D.5000903@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:53:49 -0400 From: "Mikhail T." Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; uk; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100707185928.GA16180@icarus.home.lan> <4C34E0E6.9070801@aldan.algebra.com> <779BFD8C-962A-4577-B794-6AE2B946F4DF@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <779BFD8C-962A-4577-B794-6AE2B946F4DF@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:26:50 +0000 Cc: tom@hur.st, Jeremy Chadwick , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, Randi Harper Subject: Re: 8.x grudges X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:53:51 -0000 07.07.2010 16:50, Marcel Moolenaar ΞΑΠΙΣΑΧ(ΜΑ): > Not to mention that if you change uart(4) to create dev entries like sio(4) > after uart(4) has been in the tree for more than 6 years creating ttyu* > entries, you actually introduce a gratuitous change. > If sio and uart could co-exist, then you'd be right. But sio no longer builds under 8.x, so some kind of aliasing (either by uart itself or by devfs) would be useful. -mi