From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 11 20:54:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from chandra.eatell.msr.prug.or.jp (dhcp418.6bone.nec.co.jp [202.247.4.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8182914BCF for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 20:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp) Received: from nwsl.mesh.ad.jp (localhost.eatell.msr.prug.or.jp [127.0.0.1]) by chandra.eatell.msr.prug.or.jp (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA09999; Wed, 12 May 1999 03:27:45 GMT Message-Id: <199905120327.DAA09999@chandra.eatell.msr.prug.or.jp> To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 22:55:50 -0400." <199905120255.WAA28347@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:27:45 +0900 From: NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Because 4.4BSD got it wrong. It has always been the belief of the > FreeBSD Project's management that 4.4's totally-static configuration No! 4.4BSD mechanism is good. Newconfig already support dynamic configuration and *good* module support (not yet merge newconfig CVS). > mechanism was unacceptable -- else we would have used it years ago. It is not formal core decision. > Our policy in all areas has been that we'd rather do the Right Thing > than follow the crowd. new-bus is wrong way. You are misunderstanding 4.4BSD mechanism. -- NAKAGAWA, Yoshihisa y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp nakagawa@jp.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message