From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 19:40:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47AA810E0C for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:40:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 22622 invoked from network); 19 Feb 1999 03:40:03 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 19 Feb 1999 03:40:03 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA00789; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:40:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902190340.WAA00789@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Documenting sysctl knobs In-Reply-To: <199902182318.PAA27201@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Feb 18, 99 03:18:38 pm" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:40:02 -0500 (EST) Cc: peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon said: > We could do a javadoc like thingy where we document the item in > a comment in the source code and then run a program to generate > the documentation by scanning the the source. > There is a comment field in the sysctl macro. It might not be sufficient, but then maybe a format could be defined for cross reference. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message