Re: [RFC 2] userconf(4): 2nd proposal

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2023, tlaronde%kergis.com@localhost wrote:

> > 1) Allowing shell-like patterns (not hard to implement):
> >
> > uc> disable drm*	# all starting with `drm'
>
> No...: this is a break of existing. Trailing `*' selects STARred devices
> (I'm not the inventor of this). So `*' can not be used as a joker ;-)

You can allow escapes for those:

uc> disable i915drmkms\*	# exact match STARred
uc> disable *kms\*		# only STARed `*kms'

> I have contemplated, too, adding for example "variables" to userconf and
> rejected it because this would be only useful for arch supporting
> boot.cfg,

Definition in boot.cfg was the intent.

-RVP