From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 9:52:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EB1215154 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 20398 invoked from network); 15 Dec 1999 17:52:09 -0000 Received: from lcb13.cvzoom.net (63.65.159.13) by ns.cvzoom.net with SMTP; 15 Dec 1999 17:52:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:51:08 -0500 (EST) From: Donn Miller To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config utility In-Reply-To: <199912151741.MAA08347@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > Icons are probably not the right user interface. I'd suggest > something like Windows's ``hardware manager'' (in the System control > panel). Some people were afraid that it would end up like the Windows registry. Well, even if it did, I'd argue that it still wouldn't be too bad. The Windows registry has so many classes and entries, and I think the kernel config would be smaller with not as many classes. You'd have the device class, and options class. Then, you'd break devices down into scsi, ide, etc. Or, we could break them down into network, disk controllers, sound, that way. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message