Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:05:29 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: julian@whistle.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph... Message-ID: <8811.917683529@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:54:19 PST." <199901292354.PAA01659@bubba.whistle.com>
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In message <199901292354.PAA01659@bubba.whistle.com>, Archie Cobbs writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> >Now the question is: >> >where does it go? >> >> I argue with KISS for "in the kernel". >> >> The area we're into here, is the "weirdo config args", things like >> telling cards to go into loop-back on channel 4, to select balanced >> or unbalanced connection, the speed of V.35 (for buffer estimation), >> ISDN switch type. All these highly irregular things that always >> ends up in the LINK[012] flags for interfaces and in the flags for >> isa devices. >> >> (If you look at most of the fooctrl programs, they are small, do >> almost nothing, and a general "ioctl" program which could pass >> an generic ioctl with an ascii argument to the driver would save >> us some code...) >> >> I can almost even live with the bloat of a "usage" control message >> which returns an ascii usage string. > >Poul- >What did you think of the idea of having each node contain two >new methods for encoding and decoding ASCII strings? I say methods >but really they would just understand two new generic message types. I don't see the point, quite frankly... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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