Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 07:53:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, 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: <199805190553.HAA08553@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199805190723.RAA03775@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 19, 98 05:23:24 pm
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> >When either you or Roger can verify the new sysctl hw.bt848.format, > >I will commit the fix. > > Please don't. ... > > A sysctl is even worse than a config option for device control. ioctl(2) > should be used for device control. You are right. But some programs just work because they rely on the defaults used by the kernel, and fail to set up things properly (or -- it is the same -- they assume a default behaviour that suit their needs). The PAL<->NTSC has been historically (at least in my experience) a big sort of confusion and incompatibilities, and people on either side of the Atlantic (including me) tend to forget this. I found myself many times to have to patch video grabbing programs to do this (e.g. see vic). And many times i hardwired a PAL mode in my code causing troubles to people in the US. At least this sysctl helps fixing things without having to change sources or recompile. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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