From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 19 15:15:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00445 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:15:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00422 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22201; Tue, 19 May 1998 18:15:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:15:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199805192215.SAA22201@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c In-Reply-To: <199805192052.NAA00492@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199805191613.MAA20615@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199805192052.NAA00492@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: >> I strongly disagree. Devices that have a notion of units should export >> a unit-based interface in the filesystem (i.e., /dev/foo999). sysctl >> is very much unsuited to this. (I'm still unhappy about the way I had >> to kluge things for the ifmib. At least it works...) > It's debatable as to whether the MIB should exist in the filespace, I never said that it should. I said that devices should be controlled by accessing an object in the filesystem. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message