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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>,
	Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/syscons scmouse.c src/sys/i386/conf
 options.i386 src/sys/alpha/conf options.alpha 
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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > <<On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 02:04:30 -0800 (PST), Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@FreeBSD.or
>     g> said:
> > 
> > >   - Added a new kernel configuration option: SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE.

> > This should be a flag on the mouse device (or on syscons), not a
> > compile option.
> 
> I would think a sysctl option would be better still as that's easily
> changed at runtime..

This should be an ioctl.

sysctl(8) and sysctlbyname(3) are not suitable for device control since 
the interface that makes them easy to use for one-off things makes them
hard to use for arrays of things.

Bruce



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