Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:10:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980519110843.20170B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <1493.895579750@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199805191159.VAA19174@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: > >>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. > > > >Can't be done. Devices are inherently hairy. > > But that doesn't have to be reflected meticiously in the config mechanism. > > sysctl can be expanded to handle dynmic nodes, which LKMs and device > drivers alike could benefit from. >From Memory, you ar "Mr sysctl" if you can do that it would be great because it's a thorn in my side that LKMs can't add sysctls.B > > There are some minor issues to work out, but otherwise it's just a > Small Matter Of Programming (tm) we are waiting witn baited breath.. (or is thtat bated?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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