Re: proplist

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 03:43:55PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > > > I would say what we actually *want* for most of the places proplib has
 > > > been used or proposed is a shipping tool, and in cases where we really
 > > > want a management tool we should be using libdb or sqlite or something
 > > > else along those lines, the precise choice depending on the situation.
 > > 
 > > Well, IMHO one of the places where we make good use (despite the
 > > awkward API) of proplib as a management tool is device properties
 > > in the kernel.
 > 
 > Point.

Well, maybe. That's still basically being used as a shipping tool, for
shipping the properties to the driver. The assumption is that the
driver will read what it wants out of the plist, right? Rather than
keeping the plist around indefinitely or using it to hold runtime state.

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David A. Holland
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