Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:00:14 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS Message-ID: <199510132200.IAA21348@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > 2. "ACK, that's horrible, use -2 for auto-configuring devices",
>> > (3 rsp) even though Mike indicated that handling negative numbers in the
>> > "visual" config editor was a problem. This group mentioned no
>> > other problems with the rest of the idea.
>>
>> The visual config should translate the negative numbers into something
>> better understandable ("N/A", and "AUTO", the user can hit "a" to say
>> AUTO).
>Ah well, so much for code reuse 8) Not a bad idea, though.
I don't see where the lex scanner in config is being reused :-). Standard
config syntax is "?" for auto and nothing for not applicable. Why have
yet another syntax?
Bruce
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