From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 14 14:53:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07641 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA07589 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA07083 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 23:52:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id XAA12131; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 23:46:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 23:46:43 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: undocumented kernel options... References: <199702140807.AAA14402@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <199702141834.LAA13492@narnia.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 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: <199702141834.LAA13492@narnia.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Feb 14, 1997 11:34:20 -0700 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Killed an overly long Cc list.) As Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >In our world, config(8) is simply too flexible, and having to update > >the GUI to deal each time would .. suck. > > I don't think that this has to be the case. The last time I looked into > the config system, I thought, "Hmm. What if all configurable driver > options could be dynamically registered/deregistered from the syctl tree?" I also think it would be a maintenance nightmare, but only if this tool wouldn't automatically pick up the existing reference files (LINT, sys/conf/options, sys//conf/options.), and present the information from them. Maintaining this tool separately from the above files would be stupid. I also don't think i would really use that tool for my day-to-day development kernels, but if it's good, i could even imagine using it e.g. for the customer's machine i gonna ship next week, or such. I've already got very used to sysinstall's `Configure' screen at installation time for those machines, despite of knowing where all this has to go into /etc/sysconfig. It's simply more convenient then. -- 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. ;-)