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From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
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To: des@flood.ping.uio.no
Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> writes:

 > Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes:
 > > In message <86u2y0btan.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
 > > >The attached patches implement a mechanism for retrieving a sysctl's
 > > >description. 
 > > 
 > > The intention was to have a program perambulate /sys and gather
 > > the stuff into a man-page or share/misc/sysctl.desc file or similar
 > 
 > If having sysctl descriptions in the kernel really is a problem for
 > some people, it's trivial to add a kernel option to disable my code.

Hmm - Why not put descriptions for the standard sysctls into a KLD which
uses some kind of registration mechanism to tell the sysctl infrastructure
about them?

 > How will the system you describe deal with sysctls located in
 > third-party, binary-only KLDs?

By the same mechanism suggested above?

   - mark

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