Converting a bootable USB stick in to bootable CD-ROM

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
I posted this on the -questions list but didn't get any replies. I have a FreeBSD image that I install on USB sticks to build new systems. When the stick boots it automatically clones itself on the system's hard drive, creating partitions and other configuration parameters that are programmed in

Alps GlidePoint driver for synaptics.

2009-11-10 Thread David DEMELIER
Hello there, I noticed that for the moment there is no support for alps based touchpads, is there anyone working on a driver for -CURRENT ? This is my touchpad : I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7321 N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/pl

Re: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread pluknet
2009/11/10 Dag-Erling Smørgrav : > Alexander Best writes: >> you're right. hundreds of functions cause segfaults when arg or args >> are NULL.  either we add safety checks for all of them (massive >> overhead) or just leave them the way they are. > > The consensus in the C community is that adding

Re: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alexander Best writes: > you're right. hundreds of functions cause segfaults when arg or args > are NULL. either we add safety checks for all of them (massive > overhead) or just leave them the way they are. The consensus in the C community is that adding such checks does more harm than good, be

Re: heci: a new driver for review and testing

2009-11-10 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 10/11/2009 13:54 Andriy Gapon said the following: on 09/11/2009 22:34 Gavin Atkinson said the following: Secondly, I get a panic on module unlaod. I haven't spent any time looking at this, if you haven't fixed it yet let me know and I'll look into it

RE: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread Matthew Fleming
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:03:26AM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > >ps: would be nice if strcasecmp could protect itself from segfault > > >with one or both of the args being NULL. > > > > I disagree. What do you think it should do instead? Ret

Re: heci: a new driver for review and testing

2009-11-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/11/2009 13:54 Andriy Gapon said the following: > on 09/11/2009 22:34 Gavin Atkinson said the following: >> Secondly, I get a panic on module unlaod. I haven't spent any time >> looking at this, if you haven't fixed it yet let me know and I'll look >> into it further. > > To my shame I still

Re: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:03:26AM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Alexander Best wrote: > > >ps: would be nice if strcasecmp could protect itself from segfault with > >one or > >both of the args being NULL. > > I disagree. What do you think it should do instead? Return 0?

Re: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread Alexander Best
Nate Eldredge schrieb am 2009-11-10: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Alexander Best wrote: > >ps: would be nice if strcasecmp could protect itself from segfault > >with one or > >both of the args being NULL. > I disagree. What do you think it should do instead? Return 0? If > it did, would you have fou

Re: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Alexander Best wrote: ps: would be nice if strcasecmp could protect itself from segfault with one or both of the args being NULL. I disagree. What do you think it should do instead? Return 0? If it did, would you have found your bug? The same argument could be made f

Re: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread Alexander Best
Dag-Erling Smørgrav schrieb am 2009-11-10: > Alexander Best writes: > > good point. is this one better? > Yes (modulo indentation - run your code through tabify) > DES oops. found another problem. if BURNCD_SPEED and -s aren't defined strcasecmp segfaults because env_speed is NULL. does this p

Re: heci: a new driver for review and testing

2009-11-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/11/2009 22:34 Gavin Atkinson said the following: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> Some time ago I posted some ideas about HECI/MEI driver for FreeBSD: >> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4968E9A1.3080006 >> >> I actually got around to implementing it (in initial/basic form): >

Re: [patch] burncd: honour for envar SPEED

2009-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alexander Best writes: > good point. is this one better? Yes (modulo indentation - run your code through tabify) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ha