From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 15:03:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA14476 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:03:13 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA14466 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:03:06 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA21348; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:00:14 +1000 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:00:14 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199510132200.IAA21348@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > 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