From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 6:56: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9894A37B64A; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:55:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA49462; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:07:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00507; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:57:06 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:57:06 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Warner Losh Cc: Nik Clayton , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Jun Kuriyama , doc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT Message-ID: <20000627095706.C316@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000626184249.D462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <7mvgyw4u04.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> <3957413B.83D5DEA4@newsguy.com> <20000626184249.D462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <200006262106.PAA27655@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006262106.PAA27655@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:06:57PM -0600 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:06:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000626184249.D462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: > : In my world, this XML file would be a replacement for many of the files > : in src/sys/conf/. Or, at the very least, those files would be generated > : from this XML file. As a developer, if you don't update the file the > : system won't even know about your driver (or option). > > I'm not sure how well this would work. Modules already obviate the > need to update stuff in sys/conf. S'fine, that's why this was cc'd to -current. I need input from people involved in the future technical direction of FreeBSD. How are we going to enumerate FreeBSD's supported hardware list in 5.x and beyond? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message