Revised proposition:
- 1) No change to the general form of current syntax;
- 2) Selection can be as presently: by number (index in cfdata), by
name (driver name), but also (NEW) by pattern: a pattern is
between slashes, it is a fix substring, that can be optionnally
anchored at the beginning with `^' and at the end with `$';
- 3) (NEW) If the selector (will this word do?) in 2) is surrounded by
braces `{' `}', the selector is for a group of devices;
- 4) The STAR (existing) is still handled as a suffix.
Examples:
disable i915drmkms # existing syntax
disable {drmkms} # NEW: disable devices belonging to group "drmkms"
disable {/^drm/}* # NEW: disable devices belonging to groups
# whose name begins with the substr "drm" if
# they are STARred ones.
This work for all actions: change, enable, disable, find and list.
Remainder:
Drmkms is crashing the kernel in various configurations. The drivers
can not be modloaded, they have to be compiled in the kernel. Hence a
way to disable them at booting time is needed.
Hint: Linuces distributions "work" as proposed images on servers,
where NetBSD fails. But this is because GRUB has a switch to disable
drmkms. And the switch is on. Even Linux does not try to use drmkms in
server configurations...
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