From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 23:51:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA10939 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA10931 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 23:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA09802 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:51:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15030; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:23:48 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970603082347.TZ02340@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:23:47 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor linux_emul update References: <19970602214729.QA19408@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199706030028.JAA27698@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706030028.JAA27698@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jun 3, 1997 09:58:20 +0930 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > I hope there's a sysctl to set it? :-) > > Uhh, no, at the moment that's left as an exercise for the pirate. 8) Why pirate? Somehow, you must generate the number, one way or the other. You know it... I've got no ethernet at all, so what's the returned number? I replace my first ethernet card by a totally different number, am i required to change my license? > Can you > have sysctl variables in LKMs? Last time i've been looking for it, this didn't work. IMHO, there should be a way for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)