cvs commit: src/etc remote

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 21 July 2008 05:22:15 pm Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:07 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 19 July 2008 03:08:22 pm Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >> marcel      2008-07-19 19:08:22 UTC
> >>
> >>  FreeBSD src repository
> >>
> >>  Modified files:
> >>    etc                  remote
> >>  Log:
> >>  SVN rev 180615 on 2008-07-19 19:08:22Z by marcel
> >>
> >>  With uart(4) default, change /dev/cuad# to /dev/cuau# so that
> >>  out-of-the-box FreeBSD is consistent.  Add uart[0-7] as a
> >>  fingerfriendly shortcut alongside sio[0-7] and com[1-8].
> >
> > Perhaps the sioX aliases should either be removed or still
> > reference /dev/cuadX?  Having them reference the uart(4) devices  
> > might be
> > confusing.
> 
> I was mostly thinking in terms of backward compatibility.
> sioX will map to a working port now. I can certainly remove
> sioX from the aliases, but that may break existing setups.
> I don't know if adding sioX aliases for /dev/cuadX is useful.
> I think sioX should either not exist or be an useful alias.
> 
> Thoughts?

I would just remove them.  I'm not sure how often they are really used since 
they are specific to a driver name as opposed to COM1/COM2 which some boxes 
have as labels on the case for the physical ports.

-- 
John Baldwin