From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 11:28:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20437 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20432 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id LAA03896; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980930112828.B3648@nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:28:28 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: shmit@kublai.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages) Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199809300512.PAA17386@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199809300544.WAA09382@ix.netcom.com> <19980930102536.K307@kublai.com> <19980930103313.A3511@nuxi.com> <19980930135442.D20854@kublai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19980930135442.D20854@kublai.com>; from Brian Cully on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:54:42PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Linux uses sd[a-z], not sd[0-9]. I wasn't arguing about unit "numbers". We went from sdX to daX. > SunOS 4.x uses a fixed target -> device name mapping. Just because they > share the same prefix doesn't give you any additional win, since they > have different semantics. Why not?? I wire down my FreeBSD kernels so that the unit number matches the SCSI ID? One can change the hardwireing when they rebuild a SunOS kernel. What's the differnece? > My point was (and still is), the notion of OS portability for > something like device nodes just isn't going to be viable any time > in the near future. Portability between OS' is not an issue. Actually amount Solaris, HP-UX, and presumably UnixWare there is. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message