Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:11:31 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: peter@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config config.y mkioconf.c Message-ID: <20000123171131.2147514C57@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200001231254.MAA01242@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Jan 23, 2000 12:54:11 pm"
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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