From owner-cvs-all Tue May 19 11:12:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09740 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 11:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09661; Tue, 19 May 1998 11:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19766; Tue, 19 May 1998 11:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd019762; Tue May 19 18:10:15 1998 Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:10:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Bruce Evans , 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 In-Reply-To: <1493.895579750@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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