From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 28 16:34:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24000 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23988 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29057; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:34:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd029029; Mon Sep 28 16:34:27 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12246; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:34:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809282334.QAA12246@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: time for some new man pages To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:34:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Sep 28, 98 03:16:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The sd/st man pages have not yet been replaced with da/sa pages. > > (Perhaps we should keep small sd/st pages that note the name change.) > > > > I hope tar will be told and it will adjust it's default device > accordingly. Not to mention the other distributed programs. There are also > probably some ports that need to be changed. Is theer a way to test for > post-CAM world where instead of st we have sa? How about we call the new SCSI disk driver "sd" and the new SCSI tape driver "st"? Is there a compelling reason to rename the frigging things? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message