From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 29 1:10:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CC537B401; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (chesapeake.net [205.130.220.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E9943F75; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Received: from localhost (jroberson@localhost) by mail.chesapeake.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0T9ATo86808; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 04:10:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 04:10:28 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Robert Watson , Julian Elischer , Matthew Dillon , Steve Kargl , Gary Jennejohn , Subject: Re: New scheduler - Interactivity fixes In-Reply-To: <36865.1043771568@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20030129040835.G31308-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > > > > scheduler 4bsd > > #scheduler ule > > This is just putting duck-tape over the hole rather than fix it. > > Config(8) barely managed to get a one-dimensional view of the options, > it needs to learn about dependencies in a proper way, rather than > to add magic keywords for all kernel parts. > Yes, I agree with this. I have no intentions of hacking up config though. In the absence of a real dependency mechanism I might be swayed to do some duct-tape. Perhaps we could come up with a spec and propose the idea to someone who is inclined to work on these sorts of things? I know peter had some good ideas for this. Cheers, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message