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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

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