>> It was not clashing but someone apparently felt that
>> ethernet drivers
>> all should have names ending in "e".
>
>Eee... I'm confused even more now. I just ran a man "rfe" and also a `find` on 
>/kernel and /platform for "rfe*", and came up with nothing.
>
>So if you or the person who came up with the bright idea of renaming a well
>known driver from "rh" ---> "vfe" could enlighten me on the logic of that,
>I'd much appreciate it.

We're trying to flush out the guilty party.

>I have "rh" running on SPARC(R) systems and now my stuff will need to
>be migrated. So someone has or will going to break customer stuff.



>Whatever happened to forward / backward compatibility guarantee? It is one
>of the Solaris's greatest strengths. And now this?


There's no device naming register so stuff like this can always happen with
external drivers.

Renaming those drivers willy-nilly is strange, I agree.

Casper
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