From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 22:03:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13874 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 22:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13850 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 22:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27446; Wed, 6 May 1998 22:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Nate Williams cc: Mike Smith , Archie Cobbs , stefan@promo.de (Stefan Bethke), luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 21:46:50 MDT." <199805070346.VAA07828@mt.sri.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 22:02:10 -0700 Message-ID: <27442.894517330@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No, it's a poor solution, and should NOT be used anymore than it already > is. It's worse than IOCTL's, and it's becoming the garbage dump for > everything that we don't have easy solutions for, thus making the system > that much harder to understand and configure. Hmmmm. Rather than tell us about what's wrong with sysctl, such criticism being hardly new or even particularly valuable, why not tell us what you'd rather see implemented and how you might, given the time, go about doing it? "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message