Subject: Re: atppc(4) is misnamed
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/05/2004 09:41:33
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On Feb 5, 2004, at 3:28 AM, Ben Harris wrote:
> This is a trivial issue, but it'll irritate me forever if I don't
> raise it
> now. The atppc(4) driver is misnamed, since the interface it drives
> was
> introduced for the IBM PC, not the PC/AT. I think it should be
> renamed to
> pcppc(4) now, before too many people get it stuck in their kernel
> configuration files. It's not so much the inaccuracy that bothers me
> as
> the fact that someone was clearly trying to be clever in naming the
> device
> and _got it wrong_.
I agree. pcppc is also consistent with pckbc.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
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