From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 8 12:21:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1497637B405 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:21:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g28KLGQ23266; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:21:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:17:13 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch: kern.bootdev* sysctl variables Message-ID: <20020308121713.D22956@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020308020009.A6535@iguana.icir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020308020009.A6535@iguana.icir.org>; from rizzo@icir.org on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:00:09AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:00:09AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Any objection to the following patch to i386/i386/autoconf.c > to let userland apps know [an approximation of] the name > of the device the kernel was booted from ? Yes. Things like this should not be committed to only i386. We should have the same sysctl's on all platforms unless they are truly platform Dependant. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message