Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:25:36 -0400 From: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> To: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages) Message-ID: <19980930102536.K307@kublai.com> In-Reply-To: <199809300544.WAA09382@ix.netcom.com>; from Thomas Dean on Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 10:44:54PM -0700 References: <199809300512.PAA17386@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199809300544.WAA09382@ix.netcom.com>
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On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 10:44:54PM -0700, Thomas Dean wrote: > > Is it possible to restore sd and st support just to be compatible with > other operating systems? Even if FreeBSD core members do not want > them? Is this even a consideration? What other operating systems? The only ones I can think of are NetBSD and OpenBSD, and I wouldn't be surprised if they grabbed the CAM code soon anyway. The name of the drive device is going to be at least OS specific, and really it's host specific (think about wd versus sd), and will continue to be that way until the Unix world unites under a common GPL'd standard. The name change may have been gratuitous, but I can't really object, since the old devices work just fine. Besides, if you figure that the IDE code will end up under CAM in the future, it makes sense to call it `da' instead of `sd'. -- Brian Cully <shmit@rcn.com> ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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