From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 22:16:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A97B16ADAC; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:16:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FAC43D5A; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:15:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DB25CEF; Tue, 23 May 2006 18:15:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id l58NQTtbGqV6; Tue, 23 May 2006 18:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-160-242-211.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.242.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C425CE2; Tue, 23 May 2006 18:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44738998.6070400@mac.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:15:52 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh References: <44735620.9080403@samsco.org> <20060523.132355.21838169.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060523.134540.28877846.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060523.155606.71179350.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060523.155606.71179350.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Call for testing: emu10kx driver for Creative sound cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:16:05 -0000 Warner Losh wrote: > This is what I'm thinking of adding to the sysctl.8 man page. Please > let me know if there's a better place for it. This is indented to be > the initial proposal for sysctl use by drivers, so if the results of > discussions change it, I'll update. > This seems to be a good starting point, in that the convention seems reasonable and unsurprising. It might be nice to have some discussion of API stability and the process for depreciating stable interfaces somewhere, but that probably belongs in the Handbook or perhaps in intro(9). Please check spelling: > + permanant unless they are documented in the driver's man page. > + Names which start with _ denote a tree or node which is considered > + impermanant and should not be relied up by code elsewhere in the > s/permanant/permanent/:g -- -Chuck