From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 26 16:33:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E572037B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.41.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8AF43E65 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:33:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7RBAMCY004549 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:10:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7RBALnK004548 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:10:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:10:20 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about device.hints man page Message-ID: <20020827071020.A4534@attbi.com> References: <20020825200236.GB82354@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020826110535.K705-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020826110535.K705-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:18:36AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:18:36AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > It seems to be proper for disabling acpi itself (see dev/acpica/acpi.c) > but not its loading. So to fully disable acpica, you have to do something > like: > > hint.acpi.0.disable="I prefer not to use code that (mis)uses !getenv()" > hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" I'm new to FreeBSD, so I don't know the naming conventions involved. Is the fact that acpi required two different hints to disable it the intended behavior? Or should this just be hint.acpi.0.disabled? This seems to me like inconsistent usage. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message