From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 21:52:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2993116A401; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCCDA13C442; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:52:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0NLomWr027377; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:50:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <45B68333.8000400@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:50:43 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Leffler References: <20070123173026.E692416A4CD@hub.freebsd.org> <45B65710.4060607@root.org> <20070123105009.G41619@ns1.feral.com> <45B65E4C.2050306@errno.com> <20070123112723.P43982@ns1.feral.com> <45B66458.9030406@errno.com> <20070123125236.U51690@ns1.feral.com> <45B68169.1060207@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <45B68169.1060207@errno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:50:53 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Nate Lawson Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:52:19 -0000 Sam Leffler wrote: > mjacob@freebsd.org wrote: >>>> If you just do a module, all you're doing is moving compiled code from >>>> one place to another. IMO. >>> My thought was if it's split into a module then you can have alternative >>> modules available at the loader prompt/menu to fallback to. Also if >>> it's split out we can probably auto-generate it. >> umm, yes. >> >> So, what's wrong with an ascii sysctl/hint definition? > > Nothing. I just thought I was suggesting something in-between what we > have now and a pure ascii mechanism like hints that requires in-kernel > parsing. > A quirk hints mechanism would be a trivial an extension to the existing topology hints mechanism that already exists for CAM. I say, go for it. Scott