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In-Reply-To: <200001231254.MAA01242@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Jan 23, 2000 12:54:11 pm"
To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:11:31 -0800 (PST)
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From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul)
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> > peter       2000/01/23 04:01:09 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.sbin/config      config.y mkioconf.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Clean up something in config(8) that has annoyed me for ages.  Remove
> >   the need to specify the unit number of unwired devices.  ie: instead
> >   of saying "device fxp0" we can say "device fxp" which is much closer
> >   to what it actually means.  The former (fxp0) implied something about
> >   reserving the 0th unit, but it does not and never did - it was a
> >   figment of config(8)'s imagination that we had to work around..
> >   "device fxp0" simply means "compile in the fxp device driver", so we
> >   may as well just write it as "device fxp" which is closer to what it
> >   really means.
> >   
> >   Doing this also saves us from filling up the ioconf.c tables with
> >   meaningless entries.
> 
> Excellent !  That's annoyed me too for some time.

Please tell me this change hasn't broken the ability to wire down SCSI
device unit numbers, not to mention wiring down non-PnP ISA devices.

-Bill 


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