Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:12:18 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <199901272212.XAA03458@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199901272124.NAA15248@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Jan 27, 99 01:24:01 pm"
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As Archie Cobbs wrote... > Doug Rabson writes: > > And another thing. Why can't we use a non-driver-specific name for the > > disk? Most users simply don't care whether the driver was fd, wfd, wd or > > anything. They just want to get to their files without any fuss. > > I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually > like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could Yeagh... what is wrong with ed0, de0, fxp0 etc that needs changing? Is this just a matter of taste or is there more to it? I for one don't see any advantage in eth[0-9] style device naming. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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