From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 12 13:16:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01118 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (prope3.ppp.lmi.net [208.25.88.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01096; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA12872; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:15:33 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:15:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c In-Reply-To: <199810121915.MAA07560@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > We're going to put in a mechanism in the next day or two to allow > > specifying SCSI revision in quirk entries. This will allow us to disable > > cache sync, multi-lun probing and serial number inquiries for SCSI-1 > > devices. > > Hmm. Would you consider adding a facility to parse a text-format quirk > description and add it to the compiled-in tables (if unique?). > > If you were to do this, it would be possible to read quirk entries from > a file during the boot phase, decoupling the quirk data from the kernel > code. (This would eg. make it possible to boot/install on a system > which wouldn't run without a quirk entry.) I like this idea. Perhaps a sysctl variant. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message