On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Well, i would be very happy with my patch in FreeBSD project! That without say that a "real" programmer would take care of the patch :), and i will just use the features in my servers.... :)) I don't know what should i do. I did think that after i submit a PR, the devel men will fix any problems to fit the FreeBSD project needs. Sorry, but is my first PR... Shall i fix it?? Well, shall i change the boot.netif.hostname to kern.hostname? Because if so, it's very simple in my patch, because is JUST a variable. For my patch do not cares the variable name. Do you know what i mean? I've just put that name because i did think that i was making a good thing. :)) Or maybe you can do that? Tell me what i must to do, and i will make the changes. I don't know how to make a new "OPTION" in FreeBSD kernel to my patch, you can help me? Thanks again, sorry about the newbie questions, but i really don't know the procedures.
Leal > Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:55:31 -0700 > From: John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: omestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Booting a machine over the network without pxe. > > omestre wrote this message on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 14:26 +0000: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > > > boot.netif.hostname already exists as kern.hostname. Why create yet > > > another knob for the same value? > > I have used the structures that already exists.. for bootp or > > pxe purposes... > > No, I did not misunderstand. > > > Maybe you did not understand my patch (terrible english :), but I'm using > > the loader.conf file to set that variables, and that ones (for bootp/pxe) > > have a pattern, i think that follow it is nice. The variables are (i > > > I understood your patch fine, and just so you know, your english isn't > terrible.. I know many native english speakers who write more > incomprehensible messages than this... > > > guess) for autoconfiguration task (in boot)... So boot.netif.hostname is > > not the same as kern.hostname. > > But this decision for me is irrelevant, the devel man will decide what is > > better. :)) > > Well, I am a developer, and would like to not see this patch go in till > it is fixed. The reason I say this is that soon, we'll have another > subsystem that sets the hostname for some reason, and they'll say, oh, > the bootp subsystem has it's own copy of the hostname, and soon, we might > have 5+ copies in the system, and then people won't know what one to us > or which one is the most up to date or "real" hostname of the system. > > Ok, can you answer me what uses this variable? Is this just storage > of information obtained from bootp/PXE? Do you end up setting kern.hostname > from it? > > Is there a good technical reason in your opinion for keeing it in the > "bootp" tree. > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 > > "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." > [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
