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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
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