* Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: >> The ideal solution would be to integrate it into vidcontrol, calling >> some kind of ioctl on the TTY/consolectl, but syscons is too brainless >> to know anything about hardware specific features. > > Here we are back to what was proposed instead of sysctl. I have to admin > that I'm confused now about what you propose as a good solution.
Well, I wouldn't like it if we create character devices, just to let it
implement a single ioctl() ("/dev/backlight", for example). There is
only 1 parameter that's adjustable, namely the backlight intensity. A
sysctl is a good place to store such things.
In my opinion we should only use character devices for devices that
have the semantics of a file descriptor, namely to read/write data to
it, perform select(), etc. Saying sysctl is bad, because it doesn't
allow any permissions should be considered to be a defect of sysctl, not
an advantage of devfs.
The reason why I prefer consolectl, is because it already exists and
allows related graphics parameters to be configured.
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Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl>
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