From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jan 30 00:06:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27953 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:06:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27946 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:06:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08813; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:05:30 +0100 (CET) To: Archie Cobbs cc: julian@whistle.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:54:19 PST." <199901292354.PAA01659@bubba.whistle.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:05:29 +0100 Message-ID: <8811.917683529@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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