Tom Spindler skrev:

>> Why are BSD device names so terse? It isn't very intuitive if your
>> Etherlink III is called "ep" for no particular reason, and it even leads to
>> naming conflicts. For example, "ed" is both the name for ESDI disks and a
>> network controller, IIRC. Wouldn't it be nice if devices were called
>> etherlinkiii instead of "ep" or etherexpress instead of "xi"?

>You've never had to type ifconfig commands over and over, have you?

Isn't that a good reason to supply NetBSD with a shell with line editing and
command history?

>I dont't relish the thought of having to type
>`ifconfig inteletherexpressgigabitwiththe82123chipset up`

Neither do I, that's over the top, and it's hardly appropriate for NetBSD.

>`ifconfig -a` lists all your devices, anyway.

It lists them as elmc0, ep0 and lo0, though, which brings us right back to the
poodle's kernel.

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