[brussels-dev] alternative to driver.conf(4)?

[Artem Kachitchkine]

> It isn't fair to say that the fact that I need this is "wrong".  There 
> is software configuration data which must be made to reflect hardware 
> configuration, and which cannot be autodetected.  There is also *policy* 
> data (tunables) for some things that you just can't automatically tune.  
> (Although you can provide reasonable default settings for those, and we 
> do that.  But for certain kinds of extreme uses, manual tuning may be 
> required.  E.g. applications with unusual latency requirements may 
> require a smaller buffer size than the default, or a higher interrupt 
> rate...)

IMHO there is a chasm of difference between driver tunables and 
application settings. I was making a point of focusing on the latter. GConf?

-Artem