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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


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