Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:16:37 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>, re@freebsd.org, qa@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression tests for possible sysctl kern.disks/libdisk changes/mfc Message-ID: <5070.1009271797@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:03:52 PST." <40166.1009249432@winston.freebsd.org>
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In message <40166.1009249432@winston.freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard writes: >1. Nothing "broke", it simply confused the users significantly > that "da0" used to be the very first item in the disk selection > menu and then suddenly got shuffled to a different location in > that menu, rendering their muscle memory for that menu obsolete. > >2. The downsides are mostly that the code in libdisk doesn't get > to benefit from a cleaner way of getting disk info (the sysctl). > >3. The risks I can see is that the menu goes back to exhibiting the > funky behavior of before, but that's probably unlikely. I committed code to libdisk to sort the disks into alphabetical order, that should do the trick. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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