Add timecounter option to rc.conf

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:55:13AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2003 14:11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <xzpu1dbs8b5.fsf at flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav 
> writes:
> > >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > >> In message <xzp1y0fmpb5.fsf at flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav 
> writes:
> > >> > The attached patch adds a timecounter option to rc.conf and an
> > >> > rc.d script to handle it.
> > >>
> > >> What's wrong with using /etc/sysctl.conf for this ?
> > >
> > >Partly because I believe that the choice of timecounter hardware is
> > >sufficiently important to the performance and correct operation of the
> > >system to warrant its own rc.conf knob, and partly because I hate the
> > >"configuration diaspora" of which sysctl.conf is a prime example.
> >
> > I on the other hand think that by now /etc/rc.conf has so many knobs
> > and handles that it is practically impossible to figure out how to
> > do anything without resorting to "less /etc/rc.*" to figure it out :-(
> 
> We could always write a nice GTK+ application that edits it for you...
> 
> /me ducks and hides

Errr.. you mean like ports/sysutils/thefish ? :)

G'luck,
Peter

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