Subject: Re: Terse device names
To: Andrew Basterfield <list@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Andrew Basterfield <list@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/22/2002 00:30:11
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:16:15 +0100
Andrew Basterfield <list@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Geez, is it really worth going to all the hassle of renaming devices?
> There's a unix tradition of 'less keypresses is better', some of us
> appreciate it. It doesn't take all that much intelligence to figure out
> what hardware goes with which driver. Perhaps you's like to say thankyou
> to Herb for writing a driver for your damn card rather than bitching
> about what he chose to called it. 

Sorry, that was an unnecessarily stroppy reply but I think you're missing
the point.

--Andrew

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