Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:17:19 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: per-device sysctls Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402261116570.6679-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <xzphdxdk690.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes: > > Having a unified and managed namespace for device sysctls sounds like a > > generally good idea to me, as more and more devices require some of > > another tweaking. Have you had any thoughts on how to name sysctls and > > kernel environment variables on a per-driver basis, rather than a > > per-device basis? I.e., fxp and some other device drivers have > > configuration settings that affect all instances of devices, rather tha= n > > specific instances. >=20 > It should be easy to add a per-devclass_t or per-driver_t sysctl > context and tree. These things are disgustingly easy to create; the > only hard part is figuring out when and where to create them. and delete them. >=20 > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20
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