From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 26 14: 8:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B020937B5E8; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:08:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA70395; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:08:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA27655; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:06:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006262106.PAA27655@harmony.village.org> To: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Jun Kuriyama , doc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:42:49 BST." <20000626184249.D462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000626184249.D462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <7mvgyw4u04.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> <3957413B.83D5DEA4@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:06:57 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000626184249.D462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: : In my world, this XML file would be a replacement for many of the files : in src/sys/conf/. Or, at the very least, those files would be generated : from this XML file. As a developer, if you don't update the file the : system won't even know about your driver (or option). I'm not sure how well this would work. Modules already obviate the need to update stuff in sys/conf. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message