From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 23 9:23:29 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D70D14E75; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFE31C03; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:23:18 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config config.y mkioconf.c In-Reply-To: Message from wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:11:31 PST." <20000123171131.2147514C57@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:23:18 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000123172318.EFFE31C03@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Bill Paul wrote: > > > 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. Correct, it hasn't changed anything to do with wiring. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message