Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:04:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, phk@dk.tfs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver Message-ID: <199705151804.LAA15283@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4021.863696556@critter> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 15, 97 01:42:36 pm
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> >Have you looked at how Sun Solaris does similar things? > > yes, and I don't really like it :-) Me neither. If you are going to do a registry, you might as well go for LDAP schema compatability so you can export it as an LDAP service branch and integrate it into an X.500 global directory, or at the very least enable remote management via LDAP tools. Personally, I think there are a lot of good reasons to have a registry, not the least of which is that rc.conf/sysconfig is a gross hack looking for a registry to save it from drowning in its own excrement. But DEVFS persistent storage, and ISA device persistant storage are not good uses of such a beast, IMO. There are better was to solve these problems than throwing a persistent (and potentially stale, and therefore high maintenance) store at them. The Sun routines, bogus as they are, are for runtime conflict resoloution more than they are for persistance (IMO), since once set, there's no reason that they will ever change without a hardware reconfiguration some time down the line. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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