On Friday 10 July 2009 4:31:56 am Scott Long wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <200907100818.n6a8i8p1011...@svn.freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes: > > > >> ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes. > > > > It there a particular good reason why we insist on making this > > silly mistake every five years ? > > > > I am pretty sure you were around when Justin won friends by renaming > > the SCSI disk devices ? > > > > 1. I clearly stated that the name is experimental and that a change in > the future is possible. > > 2. If the name does change, and if it changes to either 'ad' or 'da', it > can't happen until the newbus stuff is done first. I desperately need > help with that, btw, starting with removing the need for Giant from > newbus. Contact myself and/or Warner for details. > > 3. Exposing driver name details as the primary handle for users is > something that I disagree with, and I'd ultimately like to see every > direct-access block device in the system be called 'disk'. Or "phk". > Or "bde" for all I care =-) > > 4. While feelings may have been hurt 12 years ago, life did, in fact, go > on.
Actaully, if all you want is a unified name you can use unrdr (or whatever it is called) to manage the daX unit number namespace without having to have all of new-bus to do that for you. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
