From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 12 6:41:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sraigw.sra.co.jp (sraigw.sra.co.jp [202.32.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F3F14CBA for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 06:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soda@sra.co.jp) Received: from srasvf.sra.co.jp (srasvf [133.137.28.2]) by sraigw.sra.co.jp (8.8.7/3.6Wbeta7-sraigw) with ESMTP id WAA17486; Wed, 12 May 1999 22:41:33 +0900 (JST) Received: from srapc342.sra.co.jp (srapc342 [133.137.28.111]) by srasvf.sra.co.jp (8.8.7/3.6Wbeta7-srambox) with ESMTP id WAA05835; Wed, 12 May 1999 22:41:16 +0900 (JST) Received: (from soda@localhost) by srapc342.sra.co.jp (8.8.8/3.4W-sra) id WAA22134; Wed, 12 May 1999 22:41:28 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:41:28 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199905121341.WAA22134@srapc342.sra.co.jp> From: Noriyuki Soda To: "Rick Whitesel" Cc: "Noriyuki Soda" , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c In-Reply-To: <008501be9c7c$51a38020$d3e4b38c@xyplex.com> References: <199905120901.SAA04493@srapc288.sra.co.jp> <008501be9c7c$51a38020$d3e4b38c@xyplex.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> On Wed, 12 May 1999 09:35:36 -0400, "Rick Whitesel" said: > In general I believe that dynamic configuration of the system is > extremely useful to both the development community and the user > community. The development community has a much easier time if they > can load / unload drivers. As for the users, my rule of thumb is > that a computer should never ask a human the answer to a question > that it can find out for itself. I think this is especially true for > configuration information. In addition, the need for dynamic system > (re)configuration will only increase as features like PCI hot swap > become the standard. Of course, I completely agree with you. The reason I prefer newconfig is it actually can support dynamic configuration better than the new-bus. All features which new-bus has can be implemented on newconfig, too. And, more. (See the description about on-demand dynamic loading in my previous post.) Furthremore, newconfig does static configuration better than the new-bus, and newconfig has a option which removes dynamic configuration entirely from kernel. New-bus apparently doesn't have this option. So, which is flexible ? :-) -- soda@sra.co.jp Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan (Noriyuki Soda) Advanced Technology Group. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message