Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:09:38 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r195534 - in head: etc/mtree include lib/libcam sbin/camcontrol share/man/man4 sys/cam sys/cam/ata sys/cam/scsi sys/conf sys/dev/advansys sys/dev/ahci sys/dev/aic7xxx sys/dev/amd sys/de... Message-ID: <e71790db0907121809k3c66243fxd039fc67b41ab1d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A56FC7C.8060107@samsco.org> References: <37131.1247214217@critter.freebsd.dk> <4A56FC7C.8060107@samsco.org>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Scott Long<scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> In message <200907100818.n6A8I8p1011853@svn.freebsd.org>, Scott Long >> writes: >> >>> ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes. >> >> It there a particular good reason why we insist on making this >> silly mistake every five years ? >> >> I am pretty sure you were around when Justin won friends by renaming >> the SCSI disk devices ? > > 1. I clearly stated that the name is experimental and that a change in > the future is possible. Well, from a user's perspective, if CD/DVD drives are to be seen as 'cdX', then it would make sense that hard disks were seen as daX, as already advertised by cam(4). > 2. If the name does change, and if it changes to either 'ad' or 'da', it > can't happen until the newbus stuff is done first. I desperately need > help with that, btw, starting with removing the need for Giant from > newbus. Contact myself and/or Warner for details. > > 3. Exposing driver name details as the primary handle for users is > something that I disagree with, and I'd ultimately like to see every > direct-access block device in the system be called 'disk'. Or "phk". > Or "bde" for all I care =-) > > 4. While feelings may have been hurt 12 years ago, life did, in fact, go > on. > > Scott
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