Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:53:22 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c Message-ID: <199805191553.IAA03080@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 11:03:56 %2B0200." <19980519110356.54060@follo.net>
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True, however, in our case we don't make such assumption: The exact format of the sysctl bt848 variable is: unit << 8 | value Cheers, Amancio > On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 01:25:08AM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > 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. > > The disadvantage of sysctl() is that it assume you have only a single > instance of a device-type. That ain't necessarily so. > > Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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