From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 1 16:15:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA16740 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA16731 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA15479 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:15:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA12469; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:55:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704012355.QAA12469@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Internal clock To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:55:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@mt.sri.com, proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704012221.PAA09736@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 1, 97 03:21:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If, for example, the character device driver to system interface > > were relatively static (which it could be if it were well designed > > and thought out in the first place, instead of being incrementally > > revised every Tuesday),.... > > If 'ifs and butts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.' We *have* a well designed and thought out device interface: devfs. I have *no* idea what is preventing you from making it the default mechanism. (Do you think I would have engaged in this discussion if I did not already have answers to the questions which I would be asking?). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.