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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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