Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:22:59 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, mike@smith.net.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions Message-ID: <199901110522.VAA05798@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199901110458.UAA86420@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 10, 1999 8:58:53 pm"
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According to Mike Smith: > Since it's quite clear you really haven't grasped the core of the > problem, I'll present you with a simple example, and you can explain to > me how you propose to deal with it. > > I have a driver for a new peripheral. It's from a vendor that doesn't > want to distribute source code, so the driver comes as a KLD module. > The driver has a number of tuning options, which are exposed via the > sysctl MIB. Let's call this driver foobar. > Please explain how I am to find documentation for these tuning options > in the system manpages. Suggest how your approach is better than, for man foobar -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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