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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:09:02 +0100 (CET)
From:      Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS, the time has come...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901280807390.11164-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199901272124.NAA15248@bubba.whistle.com>

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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, 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
> do using netgraph, with some work).
> 
Just symlink eth0 to which card you like, just as /dev/mixer happens to be
a symlink to /dev/mixer1 on my system.

Leif



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