Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 09:22:11 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, 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 Message-ID: <12452.895594931@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 01:25:08 PDT." <199805190825.BAA01249@rah.star-gate.com>
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> 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. There is that, Bruce. Are you really arguing that it's more natural to have a ccdcontrol and a pppcontrol and a rndcontrol and a foocontrol and a ... than it is to have a handful of sysctl variables? If anything, I'd say it's the profusion of foocontrol programs which REALLY bites here and represents the biggest step backward in Unix system management for us, to say nothing of a command name space polluted with dozens of custom control programs. A huge list of sysctl variables seems almost appetizing by comparison. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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