Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 00:35:17 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/cdrom Message-ID: <12590.911637317@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:13:42 PST." <199811160413.UAA05553@bubble.didi.com>
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> What do you think about making a link /dev/cdrom to the actual CDROM > device during installation? It will help some ports that want to know I don't like it. If you're going to start making symbolic things like /dev/cdrom or /dev/tape or /dev/mouse I don't buy the argument that you only need to make one of these - you either go all-out with a consistent approach to providing "generic" devices or you just leave them out if "clean" is something you're even remotely striving for in the system. I know that we already have some uncleanliness in the current /dev, but that's no reason to make more. :-) Not that I would mind seeing a serious attempt at comprehensive symbolic naming once devfs (or whatever we use to fill in that blank) actually works and makes the implementation somewhat less crufty than it would be now. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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