Well shouldn't these all be XML files in the future?
Then we can have just ONE config file in /etc/ :)

Quoting Jeremy C. Reed (reed@reedmedia.net):
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > On a larger scale, though -- on Linux, adding the config information
> > was as simple as adding
...
> FreeBSD also has a file for pcmcia configs at /etc/defaults/pccard.conf
> with overrides in /etc/pccard.conf.
> 
> It has configs like:
> 
> # Linksys Combo PCMCIA Ethernet Card
> card "LINKSYS" "E-CARD"
>         config  auto "ed" ? 0x10
>         logstr  "Linksys Combo Ethernet Card"
>         insert  /etc/pccard_ether $device start
>         remove  /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
...