From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 23:49:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07627 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:49:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07613 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20373; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: ben@rosengart.com cc: Thomas Dean , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for some new man pages In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:14:51 EDT." Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:37:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20370.907137466@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I never heard anyone say that the old names were going away. Anyway, as > long as the major and minor numbers are correct, you can call your > device nodes anything you want to. Apparently there will still be problems with kernel config files which wire devices - those all need to be hand-edited. I tried arguing for two patches which would have spared even the config files from changing, but apparently this is the one case which doesn't allow that to work. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message