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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 18:15:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c 
Message-ID:  <199805192215.SAA22201@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805192052.NAA00492@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <199805191613.MAA20615@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199805192052.NAA00492@dingo.cdrom.com>

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<<On Tue, 19 May 1998 13:52:41 -0700, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said:

>> I strongly disagree.  Devices that have a notion of units should export
>> a unit-based interface in the filesystem (i.e., /dev/foo999).  sysctl
>> is very much unsuited to this.  (I'm still unhappy about the way I had
>> to kluge things for the ifmib.  At least it works...)

> It's debatable as to whether the MIB should exist in the filespace,

I never said that it should.  I said that devices should be controlled
by accessing an object in the filesystem.

-GAWollman

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