From owner-freebsd-arch Sun May 27 13:43:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kalaid.f2f.com.ua (kalaid.f2f.com.ua [62.149.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECDB37B424 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 13:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@mail-in.net) Received: from mail.uic-in.net (root@[212.35.189.4]) by kalaid.f2f.com.ua (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4RKk2K65747; Sun, 27 May 2001 23:46:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@mail-in.net) Received: from notebook.vega.com (das0-l39.uic-in.net [212.35.189.166]) by mail.uic-in.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4RKgro04676; Sun, 27 May 2001 23:43:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@mail-in.net) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 23:43:06 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: <200105272043.f4RKgro04676@mail.uic-in.net> To: dima@unixfreak.org Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG From: Maxim Sobolev Reply-To: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/kbdcontrol kbdcontrol.1 kbdcontrol.c X-Mailer: Pygmy (v0.5.8) In-Reply-To: <20010527185557.E96703E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 May 2001 11:55:57 -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Maxim Sobolev writes: > > On Sat, 26 May 2001 17:47:38 -0700 (PDT), Dima Dorfman wrote: > > > dd 2001/05/26 17:47:38 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: > > > usr.sbin/kbdcontrol kbdcontrol.1 kbdcontrol.c > > > Log: > > > Add a -c option which clears the history buffer using the new > > > CONS_CLRHIST ioctl. > > > > Does it really belong to kbdcontrol(1)? For me it looks > > counter-intuitive as this feature has nothing to do with > > keyboard at all. IMO this (and `-h' BTW) option should be > > moved into vidcontrol(1). > > I agree, but please think of backwards compatibility. -c is young > enough that moving it to vidcontrol is no problem. -h, however, is > different; it's already in -stable, and has been there for a long > time. I suggest that we move both to vidcontrol, and have `kbdcontrol > -h` print a "this option is now option -X in vidcontrol" or something > similar. I do not see a big problem here. `-h' option in kbdcontrol(1) is not an option that used by luser very frequently. Just a entry in appropriate relnotes could be sufficient IMO. > I'll do the necessary work for this. Des already done this work. Please see -arch archives. > > This also would solve bootstrap issue. > > Not quite. It would just hide it until somebody adds an option to > kbdcontrol which really does belong there. The fact that we have a > highly system-specific (i.e., depends on intricacies in the kernel) > tool being used to bootstrap the system is still a problem. Yes, I understand this. Actually I was talking about this specific problem. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message