From owner-cvs-all Thu May 21 17:51:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15381 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles145.castles.com [208.214.165.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15213; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA05535; Thu, 21 May 1998 16:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805212344.QAA05535@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , Joao Carlos Mendes Luis , hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty), bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 18:57:31 +0200." <8383.895769851@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:43:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > >I am likewise a little indecisive, but quite certain that emulating > >SNMP slavishly (as opposed to learning from it) would be a mistake. > > And, most importantly, the crucial thing that stopped sysctl > development: It SHALL not turn into a win32 registry look-a-like. Can you be more specific about this: do you mean "it will not be a hierarchical namespace providing access to parametric information", or "it will not be a lousy and abused implementation"? Be careful where you step - this is a sensitive and rather significant issue. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message