From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 23 22:11: 4 2003 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 11A7837B405 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD17E43F93 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1O6AxlI004364; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:10:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Hiten Pandya Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machdep.guessed_bootdev sysctl on i386 From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:42:10 EST." <20030224024210.GA50286@unixdaemons.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:10:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4363.1046067059@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 In message <20030224024210.GA50286@unixdaemons.com>, Hiten Pandya writes: > >--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline > >Hello gang. Nothing big, but important... > >Can someone tell me if the machdep.guessed_bootdev sysctl is helpful at >all? I think it's a waste, and it's pretty limited and only available >on the i386. It isn't and it should be deleted I think. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message