Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 23:53:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pccard pcic.c Message-ID: <199902030753.XAA00949@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:12:20 MST." <199901300812.BAA74889@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199901291619.IAA00807@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > In message <199901290221.SAA01699@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : > : It's not a sysctl node, it's a kernel environment variable. You can't > : > : change it once the system is up. > : > > : > So I'd just set it in my /boot/vars.rc file. That works for me. > : > : Hmm. Is that a convention that we might want to consider implementing, > : at least in a "soft" fashion? Right now we just have "loader.rc", but > : I can see that getting messy fairly fast... > > It would be nice to have an area separate from the loader script to > specify loader variables (ala /etc/rc and /etc/rc.conf). That would > make the file eitehr /boot/loader.conf or /boot/loader.rc.conf > depending on how you view existing precident. I've been toying with the idea of a persistent variable store for the loader for some time now. I think this'd be the way to go for it, but I can imagine some surprises (hey, what's that doing set again?!). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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