From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 7 20:38:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28484 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:38:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from werple.mira.net (werple.mira.net [203.9.190.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28479 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:38:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gfm@mira.net) Received: (qmail 15820 invoked from network); 8 Jan 1999 04:38:11 -0000 Received: from dp-m-n114.werple.net.au (203.17.45.114) by mira.net with SMTP; 8 Jan 1999 04:38:11 -0000 From: gfm@mira.net (Graham Menhennitt) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel configurator Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 04:37:58 GMT Message-ID: <369531c5.62570111@mira.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id UAA28480 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What about making this new program use (an expanded version of) the same code/data that "config" uses. Then they will have to stay in sync. Graham On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:34:47 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > > >On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > >> I would think that this sort of thing would only be "required" to be updated >> for RELEASE and STABLE. The rest of the time there may be a lag if you use >> the configurator. >> >> Tom Veldhouse >> veldy@visi.com > >Well, I don't think that would be a problem, I guess all the devices could >be read from LINT, that way we wouldn't have to hardcode the devices into >the configurator program. That idea came from someone else on this mailing >list, I neglected to look at that person's name, but I can't take credit. > >Kenneth Culver > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kenneth Wayne Culver >> To: Marius Bendiksen >> Cc: npe@bfc.dk ; Freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 12:09 PM >> Subject: Re: Kernel configurator >> >> >> >> >> >> This sounds like a very good idea, to me. >> >> >> >It would be a pain. Every time a new kernel option or device got added, >> >the program would have to be changed. It would seem to me that this is >> >just another thing to remember to update. >> > >> >Kenneth Culver >> > >> > >> >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> > >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message