From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 2 23:57:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19057 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:57:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles138.castles.com [208.214.165.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19052; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:57:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00949; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902030753.XAA00949@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pccard pcic.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:12:20 MST." <199901300812.BAA74889@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 23:53:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message <199901291619.IAA00807@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > In message <199901290221.SAA01699@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > : It's not a sysctl node, it's a kernel environment variable. You can't > : > : change it once the system is up. > : > > : > So I'd just set it in my /boot/vars.rc file. That works for me. > : > : Hmm. Is that a convention that we might want to consider implementing, > : at least in a "soft" fashion? Right now we just have "loader.rc", but > : I can see that getting messy fairly fast... > > It would be nice to have an area separate from the loader script to > specify loader variables (ala /etc/rc and /etc/rc.conf). That would > make the file eitehr /boot/loader.conf or /boot/loader.rc.conf > depending on how you view existing precident. I've been toying with the idea of a persistent variable store for the loader for some time now. I think this'd be the way to go for it, but I can imagine some surprises (hey, what's that doing set again?!). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message