Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:28:28 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: shmit@kublai.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages) Message-ID: <19980930112828.B3648@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <19980930135442.D20854@kublai.com>; from Brian Cully on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:54:42PM -0400 References: <199809300512.PAA17386@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199809300544.WAA09382@ix.netcom.com> <19980930102536.K307@kublai.com> <19980930103313.A3511@nuxi.com> <19980930135442.D20854@kublai.com>
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> 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
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