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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:34:06 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r196213 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <4A8567CE.4010400@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A856647.7030100@samsco.org>
References:  <200908141324.n7EDOi2r035234@svn.freebsd.org> <4A856647.7030100@samsco.org>

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Scott Long wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> Log:
>>   Make sysinstall recognize /dev/ada* disk devices.  The description
>> string
>>   "SATA disk device" reflects the current state of /dev/ada*; this may be
>>   changed in the future if other drive types start appearing as
>> /dev/ada*.
>>   Submitted by:    randi
>>   Details about what disks can appear as /dev/ada* supplied by: scottl
>>   Approved by:    re (rwatson)
>
> Note that there's still a possibility that 'ada' will go away in the
> future.

Oops.  Quite right, I intended to mention both the possibility of more devices
appearing as /dev/ada* and also the possibility of fewer devices appearing as
/dev/ada*, but I forgot about the second half of that when I sat down to write
the commit log.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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