From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 02:43:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA23753 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 02:43:30 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA23748 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 02:43:26 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA18834; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:38:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510131008.TAA18834@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:38:41 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au In-Reply-To: <199510130659.HAA03129@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 13, 95 07:59:18 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 974 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > 2. "ACK, that's horrible, use -2 for auto-configuring devices", > > (3 rsp) even though Mike indicated that handling negative numbers in the > > "visual" config editor was a problem. This group mentioned no > > other problems with the rest of the idea. > > The visual config should translate the negative numbers into something > better understandable ("N/A", and "AUTO", the user can hit "a" to say > AUTO). Ah well, so much for code reuse 8) Not a bad idea, though. > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[