Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:39:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? - RESULTS Message-ID: <199510132239.PAA09191@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199510132200.IAA21348@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 14, 95 08:00:14 am
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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?
NOTHING (NOT) woult be a '!' right? :)
>
> Bruce
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