From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 9:38:10 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 539D037B556; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA72736; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:35:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:34:58 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT Message-ID: <20000628173457.C51610@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200006271619.BAA25205@mail.geocities.co.jp> <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000626115008.B462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <200006280714.BAA03596@harmony.village.org> <395A1950.50ECD8D5@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <395A1950.50ECD8D5@mail.ptd.net>; from tms2@mail.ptd.net on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:27:12AM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:27:12AM -0400, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Any reason that the .c/.h files of the drivers couldn't be used to > > generate this information? > > Or perhaps the other way around. That's what I'd prefer. Any solution that relys on trying to parse "structured comments" like that is a kludge at best. I'd rather get all this information in to a usefully structured form now, and then process it to produce the various output formats we need. 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