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...

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 10 July 2009 4:31:56 am Scott Long wrote:
> 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.

Actaully, if all you want is a unified name you can use unrdr (or whatever it 
is called) to manage the daX unit number namespace without having to have all 
of new-bus to do that for you.

-- 
John Baldwin