Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 21:53:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Message-ID: <199912110553.VAA00494@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 21:22:55 MST." <199912110422.VAA00723@panzer.kdm.org>
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> And as for the device renaming, you didn't have to change anything from > sd->da. The old device names and nodes were supported in most every way. > There were a lot of mis-informed people on the lists who claimed that you > had to change your device names. That was completely untrue, and I > attempted to correct people, but the myth and FUD continued to propagate. Changing the device nodes' names was the only sensible thing to do when everything else that referred to the device by name (source files, kernel config, boot-time messages) used the new name. Ther -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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