cvs commit: src/sys/dev/firewire firewire.c firewire.h firewirereg.h fwdev.c

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 5 19:03:03 PDT 2003


On Wednesday,  6 August 2003 at 10:59:39 +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> At Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:11:41 +0930,
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>> On Monday,  4 August 2003 at 20:11:39 -0700, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
>>> simokawa    2003/08/04 20:11:39 PDT
>>>   Log:
>>>   Change device name notation.
>>>   - /dev/fw{,mem}X.Y represents the Y'th unit on the X'th bus.
>>>   - /dev/fw{,mem}X is an alias of fw{,mem}X.0 for compatibility.
>>
>> Just out of interest, how compatible is this with NetBSD and OpenBSD?
>
> As far as I know, they use very different code base from ours.

Yes, I've heard that too, at least in the case of NetBSD.  That in
itself isn't an issue.  It would be nice to have some compatibility in
the way it's used at user level.

Greg
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