svn commit: r220982 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm/conf sys/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/mips/conf sys/mips/malta sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf sys/sun4v/conf

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 06:59:40PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> I had been pondering devfs "link"s myself, the problem is that from the rc
> framework they come too late.  If you can add a simple .ko that does it
> programmatically on 9 that would be great.  The problem is that after booting
> the new kernel you don't know whether people had ATA_STATIC on or not, so
> we'd have to go with the defaults, that were in 8.x (and an extra tunable to
> flip the logic maybe)?

We do know that people have ATA_STATIC_ID, because if they don't, this
means they have their custom kernel config which doesn't contain ATA_CAM
and when they will use it next time they recompile their kernel they
will still have /dev/adX entries.

Also, as Alexander already noted, because of all the problems with ATA
naming over the years and for other reasons too, people often hardcode
provider name in various GEOM classes metadata, so symlink won't help.

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