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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:14:08 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, "  =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt" <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???
Message-ID:  <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com>
References:  <41614.921678583@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> I think you are missing the point.  We will not chuck the old
> wd* driver until people have crashed all MFM, RLL, ESDI and !ATA
> IDE drives.
> 
> So we WANT to be able to tell the difference...

The point here is just naming. Right now, we have:

wd0, ...
ad0, ...
da0, ...

People are asking for:

wd0, ...
da0, ...

Ie, join ad and da namespaces.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

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