Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/ic
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/21/2004 00:06:03
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> David Young <dyoung@netbsd.org> writes:
> > Log Message:
> > Hubert Feyrer points out that hw.ath.countrycode really ought to
> > be writeable.  Make hw.ath.outdoor writeable while I am here.
> 
> Really the ath sysctls should be per-device -- what if we have
> multiple aths? I think the right thing to do might be to create a

Hmm, I cannot imagine situation where e.g. countrycode would
be different for each device.

Jaromir

> space under hw for network devices and to have each network device
> attach itself under there. We could then even make ifconfig into a
> flavor of sysctl if we wanted, which would be cleaner than the current
> mass of ioctls needed.
> 
> Perry
> 

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