"Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote: > > The API is almost finished - expect something to overlay an > > existing > > settings structure with new data is missing right now. That would > > not > > only be needed by the settings idea I proposed, but also by the > > boot > > loader which, at least in R5, allows to add new settings in the > > boot > > process. > Very nice (that it is almost finished). But the implementation has to be revised some day - it has been optimized to work with a very simeple & dumb memory allocator, and that's not really necessary anymore; for the boot loader, I have something a little bit different in mind anyway (cause the boot loader heap is supposed to go away once the kernel is running). > > No, definitely not (yet). That would require many changes in the > > format, and I am afraid they wouldn't be that nice. That's > > something to > > think about at a later time, though. > > It would be easy if there would be only strings in those BMessages, > > though :-) > This would be no BMessage, then. ;) It could be :-)) Anyway, the current driver settings language doesn't allow for this - once we update its docs, we should reserve some characters which allow further enhancement in this direction, though. > > > > BTW I guess I will have to write a newsletter article about the > > > > revised driver_settings API anyway. > > > Please do. :) > > Sure :) > Thank you. > As you might have seen PPP makes use of it and there will be the need > for > adding/changing entries in the structure. A nice little documentation > (like > a newsletter article) would be of great help. Yes, I can imagine. > > > > If there are more than one file per profile, we should just put > > > > them all into one directory per profile. > > > > Also, (independently from the directory/file structure) we > > > > could do > > > > neat things like have a basic profile that others will inherit > > > > if > > > > specifications are missing. > > > The copy-paste method is a very good alternative. ;) > > Copy-paste? > Yes, you just copy the parent's settings and paste them into each > sub-profile. :) > This is not very powerful, but it is easier to understand for > beginners. That would be okay for the GUI at least (for a start) - I don't want to do something like this in the settings files :) Adios... Axel.