Subject: Re: Q about "ahc" and "ahe" (was Re: README: changes to ep driver)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/01/1996 23:31:56
>They should share the same name ... the "ahe" name is really a hack, 
>because the cfattach changes hadn't happened yet.
>
>Really, there should be:
>
>	sys/dev/pci/ahc_pci.c
>	sys/dev/eisa/ahc_eisa.c
>
>...and, if there is a real ISA version of the card:
>
>	sys/dev/isa/ahc_isa.c

Why make the names redundant and different than the FreeBSD file names?
In FreeBSD, the PCI probe code for the ahc device is in aic7870.c and
the EISA probe code is in aic7770.c since the names acurately describe
the chips the probes find.  It seems silly to add an "isa" or "pci"
suffix to files that are already in a directory of that name. 

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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