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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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