tytso@xxxxxxx wrote:
> them on the command-line can get very ugly. Personally, if you can't
> reliably autodetect devices (which is the real problem; the ISA bus is a
> hack), I consider being able to configure and reconfigure devices from a
> booted system to be much cleaner than boot-time only configuration via a
> command-line, which to me seems to be infinitely more kludgy.
I would agree with that, and add that device configuration shouldn't work
differently for modules vs. compiled-in drivers as is the case now.
Maybe it /would/ be best to provide some kind of configuration mechanism
for undetectable devices through devfs/devfsd, so that we can move toward
a single config file (currently devfsd.conf, maybe to be called devices.conf)
for handeling all device-related stuff?
- Jürgen
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