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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:41:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        FreeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sysctl for CAM SCSI quirks?
Message-ID:  <200004032141.RAA16068@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:35:44 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> said:

> I'm not sure I follow this.

> This subject has come up before in that tape quirks are really busted, etc..

I don't believe sysctl (at least in the form Brad suggested) is at all
the right model.  Rather, the kernel should accept a simply-formatted
text blob which lists the quirks.  This can then be linked into the
kernel, or passed via the loader, or edited in place using sysctl.

-GAWollman

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