tech-kern: Re: Should kern.consdev be moved to hw.consdev?

Subject: Re: Should kern.consdev be moved to hw.consdev?
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/07/2000 08:41:57

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:31:36PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
> 
> Since the "kern.consdev" sysctl variable really controls
> behavior of the hardware rather than the kernel, shouldn't
> it be moved to "hw.consdev"?

IMO, it controls kernel behaviour, that is, to what device the kernel
sends its console output, and from where it receives console input...

	-is