From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 12 9:20:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from moss.nibb.ac.jp (moss.nibb.ac.jp [133.48.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742FA15233 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 09:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moss.nibb.ac.jp (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00719; Thu, 13 May 1999 01:16:38 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: rwhitesel@nbase-xyplex.com, soda@sra.co.jp, current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c From: Tomoaki NISHIYAMA In-Reply-To: <5756.926523945@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <5756.926523945@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94b8 on Emacs 19.34 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990513011637Y.tomoaki@moss.nibb.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 01:16:37 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 990212(IM106) Lines: 34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:45:45 +0200 Message-ID: <5756.926523945@critter.freebsd.dk> phk> phk> >phk> > Since newconfig appears technically superior, what are the issues that phk> >phk> >are hindering its acceptance? phk> >phk> phk> >phk> That we want to have no "config" at all. phk> > phk> >That is too short an answer. phk> phk> No, it is complete and to the point. phk> phk> >What is the definition of "config"? phk> phk> config(8) phk> phk> >Why do you want to remove it? phk> phk> Why should we, as a 3rd millenium OS need a static config tool ? Newconfig is a *dynamic* configuration tool. Replacing the old config with newconfig is sufficient for your reason to remove config. Why do you refuse newconfig if it is a better framework for dynamic configuration? -------- Tomoaki Nishiyama e-mail:tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message