Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 23:35:59 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c Message-ID: <199805201335.XAA09144@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> It sure will be nice to have a uniform way to configure the kernel and its >> modules ala sysctl rather than having to remember N "hairy device specific" >> programs. > >There is that, Bruce. Are you really arguing that it's more natural >to have a ccdcontrol and a pppcontrol and a rndcontrol and a >foocontrol and a ... than it is to have a handful of sysctl variables? No, I'm arguing that it is more natural to have a ccdcontrol and etc. than it it is to have a ccd sysctl and a ppp sysctl and a rnd sysctl and a foo sysctl and a ..., each with its own more than a handful of sub-variables, each with its own kludges to handle multiple units and each with its own kludges to recover device attributes. Bruce
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