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Subject: Re: Call for review: restart pccardd by SIGHUP
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> >> http://www.freebsd.org/~iwasaki/pccard/pccardd-signal.diff
> >> is for restarting pccardd by sending SIGHUP like
> >> 
> >>  # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/pccardd.pid`
> >> 
> >> On restart, some efforts would be made for consistency such as
> >> maintain resource and card entry (except for generic entry) being
> >> used.
> > 
> > This is *really* a good thing.  Right now it's too difficult to debug
> > the system and get a working configuration.
> 
> I second that. And can we have an optin to specify which configuration file
> to read from. This is useful for setups that change as one moves location.

Umm, /etc/pccard.conf should be constant, and shouldn't require any
changing whatsoever.  /etc/rc.conf may require changing, but the card
database certainly shouldn't...


Nate


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