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Re: sys/dev/isa/fd.c FDUNIT/FDTYPE



On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:27:50AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> I'm afraid few developers will maintain MAKEDEV script properly,
> and few users will rerun /dev/MAKEDEV on upgrade.

Nothing that usr.sbin/postinstall can't fix (or at least warn about)

> Nowadays floppy is almost dead, so we don't have to care about
> compatibility, though...

Indeed - but this also means, nobody will be bitten by the change when 
we fix it (IIUC only machines with > 1 floppy would be affected anyway,
unless you use the new formats - I have a realy strange collection of
old machines, but pretty sure none of it has more than one floppy drive,
actually most of them have only broken drives).

Martin


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