From owner-soc-status@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 15:43:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: soc-status@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C18106566C for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6A18FC13 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A132246B4C; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:43:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 765F28A04E; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:43:49 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Ilya Bakulin Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:35:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <20100614151113.17a1c368@kibab.com> <201006151204.56034.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100620232814.56e160e6@kibab.com> In-Reply-To: <20100620232814.56e160e6@kibab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006211135.05669.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:43:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Alexander Leidinger , soc-status@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Status update] sysctlreg project X-BeenThere: soc-status@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Summer of Code Status Reports and Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:51 -0000 On Sunday 20 June 2010 3:28:14 pm Ilya Bakulin wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:04:55 -0400 > John Baldwin 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