From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 08:52:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4340B16A4BF; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9422A43FE9; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (37.80-203-228.nextgentel.com [80.203.228.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DD9785FC; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:52:13 +0200 (MEST) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 2AAE998425; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:52:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (dwp.des.no [10.0.0.4]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 2D8D098423; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:52:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id EC9ADB822; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:52:08 +0200 (CEST) To: Jake Burkholder References: <200309110014.h8B0EHOX044603@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030911151425.GA85714@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030911153213.GD12432@locore.ca> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:52:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030911153213.GD12432@locore.ca> (Jake Burkholder's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:32:13 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=8.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,RISK_FREE,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: David O'Brien Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.sparc64 ttys X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:52:17 -0000 Jake Burkholder 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