Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 23:11:38 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS Message-ID: <199510151341.XAA04478@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510132200.IAA21348@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 14, 95 08:00:14 am
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying:
> >> The visual config should translate the negative numbers into something
> >> better understandable ("N/A", and "AUTO", the user can hit "a" to say
> >> AUTO).
>
> >Ah well, so much for code reuse 8) Not a bad idea, though.
>
> I don't see where the lex scanner in config is being reused :-). Standard
> config syntax is "?" for auto and nothing for not applicable. Why have
> yet another syntax?
Because "nothing" and "?" generate the same result, come kernel-time.
(-1).
And offhand, "N/A" and "AUTO" beat the hell out of " " and "?" for the
purposes of a visual config editor.
> Bruce
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