Subject: Re: Should kern.consdev be moved to hw.consdev?
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/07/2000 10:32:32
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:31:36PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
>=20
> Since the "kern.consdev" sysctl variable really controls
> behavior of the hardware rather than the kernel, shouldn't
> it be moved to "hw.consdev"?

I think not.=20

You should view it as a variable controlling kernel behaviour:=20
- where does it direct console output?
- where does it get console input from?

	-is

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