Leif Neland wrote...
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
> > Doug Rabson writes:
> > > And another thing.  Why can't we use a non-driver-specific name for the
> > > disk?  Most users simply don't care whether the driver was fd, wfd, wd or
> > > anything.  They just want to get to their files without any fuss.
> > 
> > I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually
> > like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could
> > do using netgraph, with some work).
> > 
> Just symlink eth0 to which card you like, just as /dev/mixer happens to be
> a symlink to /dev/mixer1 on my system.

How are you going to do that, when network drivers don't have device nodes?

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
k...@plutotech.com

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