On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:59 PM, matthew green wrote:

> what is this?  where was it discussed?

It will replace the current "properties" stuff in the kernel, and is  
actually something that can be used to pass a richer set of  
information between userland and the kernel for, among other things,  
autoconfiguration.

It was discussed with and approved by core@

-- thorpej