On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, 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.
Unfortunately network devices aren't represented in /dev on BSD systems. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
