From owner-cvs-all Tue May 19 08:54:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12475 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 08:54:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12347; Tue, 19 May 1998 08:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03080; Tue, 19 May 1998 08:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805191553.IAA03080@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund cc: Bruce Evans , luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 11:03:56 +0200." <19980519110356.54060@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:53:22 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk True, however, in our case we don't make such assumption: The exact format of the sysctl bt848 variable is: unit << 8 | value Cheers, Amancio > On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 01:25:08AM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > It sure will be nice to have a uniform way to configure the kernel and its > > modules ala sysctl rather than having to remember N "hairy device specific" > > programs. > > The disadvantage of sysctl() is that it assume you have only a single > instance of a device-type. That ain't necessarily so. > > Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message