Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:35:05 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ilya Bakulin <webmaster@kibab.com> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, soc-status@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Status update] sysctlreg project Message-ID: <201006211135.05669.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20100620232814.56e160e6@kibab.com> References: <20100614151113.17a1c368@kibab.com> <201006151204.56034.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100620232814.56e160e6@kibab.com>
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On Sunday 20 June 2010 3:28:14 pm Ilya Bakulin wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:04:55 -0400 > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I think for now the focus should be on solving the ports case which can be done > > rather simply in userland. If in the future someone comes up with a practical > > use case for spoofing these values that the env vars does not solve, then this > > could be revisited. > > > John, thank you for your suggestions. We've discussed them with > Alexander and decided to make spoof-off implemented in userland via > environment options. > > So my plan has some changes. Next week I'll try to implement "spoof-off" in feature_present(3). We've already discussed the way of setting required environment variables. It seems that FEATURES_DISABLED="geom_journal compat_freebsd6 compat_freebsd7" is the preffered way. > > Also I'll need to adjust my Perforce configuration, because right now I only have src/sys mapped in my client view. BTW where should feature_present(1) be placed? I think that usr/sbin is the most appropriate place? > > And of course I'll continue to add more features in the kernel :-) Last week I had an unexpected delay in this part of the work, hope that this week will be better. I think usr.bin is fine for feature_present(1). Thanks! -- John Baldwin
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