Subject: Re: More Device Properties
To: None <cgd@sibyte.com, eeh@netbsd.org>
From: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/21/2001 20:34:51
eeh@netbsd.org writes:
> PROP_WAIT does not make sense on a property structure. So
> you want to pass 3-4 different `flag' parameters to these calls?
>
> Actually, come to think about it, the only flag that would
> ever be actually attached to a property would be PROP_STRING,
> and I hope to find some way of marking a property as a string
> without requiring an extra flag field. So, for the most part,
> the flags change the behavior of specific functions.
Uh, how about PROP_CONST?
That would simply change the method used to allocate the property
structure not to allocate storage for the property.
Eduardo