Subject: Re: More Device Properties
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/21/2001 12:26:40
eeh@netbsd.org writes:
> 	PROP_WAIT does not make sense on a property structure.  So
> 	you want to pass 3-4 different `flag' parameters to these calls?
> 
> Actually, come to think about it, the only flag that would
> ever be actually attached to a property would be PROP_STRING,
> and I hope to find some way of marking a property as a string
> without requiring an extra flag field.  So, for the most part,
> the flags change the behavior of specific functions.

Uh, how about PROP_CONST?

(I suspect that the 'immutable' flag, even if only used internally,
would end up on the device not on individual properties.)



cgd