From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 15 06:19:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA25200 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 06:19:55 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA25192 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 06:19:51 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA04478; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 23:11:38 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510151341.XAA04478@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 23:11:38 +0930 (CST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199510132200.IAA21348@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 14, 95 08:00:14 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1018 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[