From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 13:53:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48E016A420; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BF443D45; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1LDrSEt011797 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:53:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id k1LDrL58092300; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:53:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17403.6992.968878.676078@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:53:20 -0500 (EST) To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" In-Reply-To: <20060220224724.GJ65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200602200250.k1K2o9WQ060573@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060220224724.GJ65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:53:29 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: > On Monday, 20 February 2006 at 2:50:09 +0000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > gallatin 2006-02-20 02:50:09 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/modules Makefile > > Log: > > Hook the myri10ge driver to the i386 and amd64 module builds. > > Is this device really going to be called myri10ge? That's at least > double the length of any other device. Can't we come up with a > shorter name? Personally, I can't stand the name either. Internally, I lobbied as hard as I could for mxge (Myri X GE), but my bosses were afraid that name might be confused with other product names (mx2g, mx10g), and because our ethernet-over-myriinet interface names have always been "myri" for our OS-bypass 2 and 4Gb products. So we have myri10ge as the name of our Linux, Solaris, MacOSX, and Windows drivers. My reason for naming it myri10ge in FreeBSD was to be consistent with our other platforms & to keep my bosses happy, since I was allowed to do this as part of my day job. If there are technical reasons why it needs to be shortened, then I have a leg to stand on and hopefully won't get into trouble for changing it. Alternatively, would it be an option to shorten just the ifp->if_xname, and leave the driver named myri10ge? The rationale is that nobody seems to mind the MacOSX driver's name being "en3" or the linux driver being "eth2" according to ifconfig. Bear in mind I'm just trying to keep everyone happy! Thanks, Drew