Experiemntal ascii based device configuration mechanism.

This may or may not survive, decision will be made well before 5.0-R

sys/netgraph/ng_base.c

@@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ static const struct ng_cmdlist ng_generic_cmds[] = {
 	  NULL,
 	  &ng_generic_typeinfo_type
 	},
+	{
+	  NGM_GENERIC_COOKIE,
+	  NGM_TEXT_CONFIG,
+	  "textconfig",
+	  NULL,
+	  &ng_parse_string_type
+	},
 	{
 	  NGM_GENERIC_COOKIE,
 	  NGM_TEXT_STATUS,
@@ -1589,6 +1596,7 @@ ng_generic_msg(node_p here, struct ng_mesg *msg, const char *retaddr,
 		break;
 	    }
 
+	case NGM_TEXT_CONFIG:
 	case NGM_TEXT_STATUS:
 		/*
 		 * This one is tricky as it passes the command down to the

sys/netgraph/ng_message.h

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ struct ng_mesg {
 #define	NGM_TEXT_STATUS		11	/* (optional) get text status report */
 #define	NGM_BINARY2ASCII	12	/* convert struct ng_mesg to ascii */
 #define	NGM_ASCII2BINARY	13	/* convert ascii to struct ng_mesg */
+#define	NGM_TEXT_CONFIG		14	/* (optional) get/set text config */
 
 /* Structure used for NGM_MKPEER */
 struct ngm_mkpeer {

usr.sbin/ngctl/Makefile

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $Whistle: Makefile,v 1.3 1999/01/16 00:10:11 archie Exp $
 
 PROG=		ngctl
-SRCS=		main.c mkpeer.c connect.c name.c show.c list.c \
+SRCS=		main.c mkpeer.c config.c connect.c name.c show.c list.c \
 		msg.c debug.c shutdown.c rmhook.c status.c types.c
 MAN8=		ngctl.8
 DPADD+=		${LIBNETGRAPH}

usr.sbin/ngctl/main.c

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ static int	QuitCmd(int ac, char **av);
 
 /* List of commands */
 static const struct ngcmd *const cmds[] = {
+	&config_cmd,
 	&connect_cmd,
 	&debug_cmd,
 	&help_cmd,

usr.sbin/ngctl/ngctl.h

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct ngcmd {
 #define CMDRTN_QUIT		3
 
 /* Available commands */
+extern const struct ngcmd config_cmd;
 extern const struct ngcmd connect_cmd;
 extern const struct ngcmd debug_cmd;
 extern const struct ngcmd help_cmd;