Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:50:23 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103072044370.1308-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <982uie$cer$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > dump.8 and dump(8) both refer explicitly to nsa0 and nrsa0 whereas > > sa0 and nsa0 are the actual device names in -current. The dump sources also refer to only the 'r' devices (_PATH_DEFTAPE is still "/dev/rsa0"). > Then this should be fixed. > The non-'r' device names have been standard in -CURRENT for quite > some time. MAKEDEV only creates 'r'-names for backwards compatibility. The backwards compatibility cruft should have been removed in -current long ago. I removed all 'r' devices from my /dev about a year ago but haven't changed this in MAKEDEV. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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