Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:08:55 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core Message-ID: <47AC7087.20109@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080208143627.GL53191@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <47A9F835.1060200@bsdforen.de> <47AA0696.5020109@bsdforen.de> <7872AB6E-21DA-4E2D-93C0-D07CFA3A7E47@mac.com> <47AA0E3E.4020304@bsdforen.de> <e71790db0802071822l661bdcb8s6dfe5b94be11f0dc@mail.gmail.com> <47ABF66E.4040807@bsdforen.de> <e71790db0802080543g54d27bb8nfdc33e342f982b4@mail.gmail.com> <47AC65E5.8080604@bsdforen.de> <20080208143627.GL53191@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:23:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >>> On Feb 8, 2008 4:27 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote: >>>> ... >>>> I put the following into my rc.conf: >>>> # Set mode for CD/DVD drive. >>>> /sbin/atacontrol mode acd0 2>&1 | /usr/bin/grep PIO > /dev/null 2>&1 \ >>>> && /sbin/atacontrol mode acd0 UDMA33 >>> Do not put this in rc.conf. It will be executed again each time a >>> script in /etc/rc.d source rc.conf to obtain the configuration >>> variables. >> Hence the check, weather the drive is in PIO mode or not. The way I >> understand the rc(8) manual page, the same is true for rc.local. >> ... > > As I learned some years ago, rc.conf is for configuration > variable-setting, not executable code. Ref. (from rc.conf(5)): Why care about correctly implementing a sloppy solution? I'd rather have a good solution correctly implemented. For me that means offering the possibility to tweak the ata mode for each device in the /boot/device.hints file.
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