Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:23:18 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> 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 Message-ID: <20000123172318.EFFE31C03@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:11:31 PST." <20000123171131.2147514C57@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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