Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:39:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: RE: DISCUSSION: /dev/fd%d.%d and /dev/{a}cd%d[ac] to be discontinued ?
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0309041325570.41602-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030904162418.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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I certainly agree about the 'a' and 'c' devices. I'm not so sure that the density devices should go. They don't fit very well into the 'geom' world however so I can see that it may be better to provide a better way of selecting densities.. (of course I doubt there will be any more NEW 'floppy' densities as the time of the floppy disk is past, but it may still be worth while being able to write 720K floppies for some people.. I know of one industrial NC-lathe that takes its patters in on a 720K floppy (though I don't have to deal with it). It would probably be enough to be able to read and rewrite such a floppy and not neccesarily to create a new one from scratch.. (i.e. auto-select from existing media may be enough). maybe with an ioclt to select the default. The 'density' devices are defintly expendable if there are other ways to do that and if we can convince ourselves that no-one uses other densities then I have no quibbles.. Do we want to support other densities? An ioctl to select the right member of fd_types[] should not be difficult fopr setting a default value.. On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > [ @current trimmed, arch@ should generate a long enough thread on it own ] > > On 04-Sep-2003 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > I am committing a BURN_BRIDGES patch which puts the density select > > devices of the floppy driver and the 'a' and 'c' compat partitions of > > the CD drivers on the chopping block for 6-current. > > My initial reaction is that this sounds ok to me. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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