svn commit: r195534 - in head: etc/mtree include lib/libcam sbin/camcontrol share/man/man4 sys/cam sys/cam/ata sys/cam/scsi sys/conf sys/dev/advansys sys/dev/ahci sys/dev/aic7xxx sys/dev/amd sys/de...

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Fri Jul 10 08:32:04 UTC 2009


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200907100818.n6A8I8p1011853 at svn.freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes:
> 
>>  ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes.
> 
> It there a particular good reason why we insist on making this
> silly mistake every five years ?
> 
> I am pretty sure you were around when Justin won friends by renaming
> the SCSI disk devices ? 
> 

1. I clearly stated that the name is experimental and that a change in
the future is possible.

2. If the name does change, and if it changes to either 'ad' or 'da', it
can't happen until the newbus stuff is done first.  I desperately need
help with that, btw, starting with removing the need for Giant from
newbus.  Contact myself and/or Warner for details.

3. Exposing driver name details as the primary handle for users is
something that I disagree with, and I'd ultimately like to see every
direct-access block device in the system be called 'disk'.  Or "phk".
Or "bde" for all I care =-)

4. While feelings may have been hurt 12 years ago, life did, in fact, go
on.

Scott


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