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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.

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