From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 17 11: 1: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898F714BF1 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:00:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00771; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:00:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA43238; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:00:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" , " =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:14:08 +0900." <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:00:23 +0100 Message-ID: <43236.921697223@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >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. If you want to join anything, go directly to "disk%d" instead. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message