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To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Subject: Re: dynamic vs static sysctls? 
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>,
	Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>,
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:06:08 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0101311021320.52835-100000@mx.webgiro.com> Andrzej Bialecki writes:
: changed to create the subtree on the fly, based on the actual presence of
: the hardware:
: 
: hw.atamode.ata0: ---
: hw.atamode.ata1: ---
: hw.atamode.ata2: dma
: hw.atamode.ata3: dma
: ...

The problem with this scheme is that you don't have all the
information about a device under one part of the treem.

Warner


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