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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:25:20 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@newsguy.com
Subject:   Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???
Message-ID:  <199903220225.NAA29947@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> >And you submit that this is an acceptable solution?
>> 
>> Of course.  The FreeBSD device name won't change (modulo implementation
>> bugs), and even when it does, changing the config file is easier than
>> changing /etc/fstab.
>
>Since this entire thread came about due to a device name change, and
>given that the last major upheaval in this domain was over a similar
>change, I'd say that was wishful thinking in the least.

Driver name changes are implementation bugs.  So are driver numbering
changes.  The latter are more serious, since you can't work around them
by linking files in /dev if the new or old numbering is dynamic.

Bruce


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