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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101302120060.826-100000@besplex.bde.org> from Bruce Evans at "Jan 30, 2001 10:11:24 pm"
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It seems Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> > Replicating the hw.atamodes dma/pio thing is probably the ticket though.
> 
> Blech.  Sysctl should never be used in device drivers.  It doesn't scale
> well, and encourages poor user interfaces.

I have to agree with you here, I like ioctl's better and that is what
I'm going to introduce soon to get attach/detach behavior via an
atacontrol util..

Do you have better ideas before I get too far down the road ?

-Søren


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