From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 08:48:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB5716A401 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:48:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E480E13C45E for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:48:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.0/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3I8UANt098017 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:30:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.0/Submit) id l3DL30cQ019138; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:03:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:02:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Oliver Fromme Message-ID: <20070413210259.GC11092@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070413142416.GB4558@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <200704131526.l3DFQxf0041914@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200704131526.l3DFQxf0041914@lurza.secnetix.de> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: ianf@clue.co.za, brooks@freebsd.org, brueffer@freebsd.org, peterjeremy@optushome.com.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, thompsa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new trunk(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:48:04 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 13), Oliver Fromme said: > Christian Brueffer wrote: > > Andrew Thompson wrote: > > > I can see this topic coming up again so it could save some time > > > to rename the driver now. It would mean that we lose the naming > > > link to the same driver in OpenBSD but you cant win em all. > > > > > > Some names that have been suggested are: > > > > > > linkag(4) > > > agr(4) > > > bond(4) <- same as linux > > > > agr(4) as I understand it sounds very restrictive to me > > considering the different modes trunk(4) supports. I'd prefer > > bond(4) (also a great opportunaty to add some 007 jokes to the > > manpage :-P). > > Personally I also prefer bond(4). However, _if_ you choose agr(4), > please spell it correctly as aggr(4) ("aggregation"). Solaris calls its device aggr(4), btw. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com