Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 03:14:08 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: brian@Awfulhak.org, brian@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/gnu/i386/isa dgb.c Message-ID: <199804211714.DAA06292@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>What's the rationale behind the new names ?
>
> dgbN.N
> idgbN.N
> ldgbN.N
> dgbcuaN.N
> idgbcuaN.N
> ldgbcuaN.N
They are just wrong. The wrong names were introduced in rev.1.10
(1995/12/08) of dgb.c and never fixed. Wrong ownerships and
permissions were introduced then too. I fixed many similar bugs,
but only for devices created by `sh MAKEDEV all'.
>I prefer these names to the old {cua,tty}D* ones as they're more
>intuitive, but maybe they ought to be
The above names don't sort very well.
> dgbttydN
> dgbttyidN
> dgbttyldN
> dgbcuaaN
> dgbcuaiaN
> dgbcualaN
>
>so that they're also a bit more consistent with sio ?
They must be consistent with MAKEDEV. The last 2 or 3 characters of the
names for the non-control must uniquely indentify the device for use in
ps, etc.
Bruce
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