On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Quentin Garnier wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:58:40AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Quentin Garnier wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:00:29AM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> The point is not XML.  The point is using proplib, so you don't  
>>> have to
>>> rewrite a f/ing parser every time you add functionality or change  
>>> the
>>> syntax of the configuration.  XML is just a way of doing that,  
>>> which is
>>> well known and is used in a lot of other contexts.  But just any  
>>> proplib
>>> codec is fine.
>>>
>>> Rah, if people could think for a second before stopping as soon  
>>> as they
>>> see XML in mail.
>>>
>>> I don't like XML myself, but I see the value in using proplib to  
>>> store
>>> or pass data between subsystems.  If XML is the price to pay for  
>>> that,
>>> well, I find it a reasonable deal.  I don't mind people  
>>> disagreeing on
>>> that point, but what annoys me is people not seeing anything but  
>>> XML in
>>> proplib.
>>
>> 	The crucial question in this case is
>>
>> 	"Do we want to encode anything in this config file which
>> 	 cannot be entered on the booting kernel command line?"
>>
>> 	If no, then the commandline parser can cover all.
>> 	If yes, then we need another parser, in which case proplib is
>> 	the standard way to address this.
>
> Exactly.  Now we can discuss.
>
> A non-exhaustive list of stuff we might want:
>
>  - configure/unconfigure driver instances (should be handled by  
> userconf)
>  - pass parameters to subsystems (e.g., disable ipv6, ...  userconf  
> too?)
>  - pass all information boot -a makes the kernel ask for (this is not
>    userconf currently)
>  - pass information for NFS root
>  - setup early IPFilter/PF rules, IPsec policies
>
If we will ever have good lkm loader we can use this file for lkm  
modules specifying and we can load modules at boot time as FreeBSD does.

We can also tune our sysctl flags there, because of secure level  
restrictions ?


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