Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:15:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901280914450.95594-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901280807390.11164-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > > > 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. Unfortunately network devices aren't represented in /dev on BSD systems. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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