Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:52:08 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.sparc64 ttys Message-ID: <xzpekyn5nmf.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20030911153213.GD12432@locore.ca> (Jake Burkholder's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:32:13 -0400") References: <200309110014.h8B0EHOX044603@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpisnz68d0.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20030911151425.GA85714@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030911153213.GD12432@locore.ca>
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Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> writes: > Apparently, On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:14:25AM -0700, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:24:11AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > > Is there a good reason for uart to use ttyu instead of ttyd? There's > > > no risk of conflict even if both uart and sio are present, thanks to > > > devfs, so why not use the traditional name? > > I hate to say it -- as an owner of sparc64 and amd64, alpha, & i386 > > FreeBSD machines using serial consoles and thus affected by this, I agr= ee > > with des. > I didn't pick the name and don't see that it makes much difference. You'= ll > have to take this up with Marcel. It *does* make a difference. It makes it harder, for no good reason, to switch from sio to uart or back. The device name is part of the exposed interface, and gratuitious changes to interfaces are never a good idea. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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