Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:09:10 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c Message-ID: <1493.895579750@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 21:59:43 %2B1000." <199805191159.VAA19174@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199805191159.VAA19174@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>It sure will be nice to have a uniform way to configure the kernel and its >>modules ala sysctl rather than having to remember N "hairy device specific" >>programs. > >Can't be done. Devices are inherently hairy. But that doesn't have to be reflected meticiously in the config mechanism. sysctl can be expanded to handle dynmic nodes, which LKMs and device drivers alike could benefit from. There are some minor issues to work out, but otherwise it's just a Small Matter Of Programming (tm) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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