From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 24 13:15:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20159 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles340.castles.com [208.214.167.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20154 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05078; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901242111.NAA05078@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garrett Wollman cc: Archie Cobbs , mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:10:30 EST." <199901242110.QAA17006@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:11:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > < said: > > > Peter pointed out that having the sysctl's as symbols was a nice > > advantage of the current system. How important is this? > > I don't think it's important at all. (Then again, I liked the old > system.) > > > If we were willing to give this up, then the SYSCTL() macro could > > just expand to a SYSINIT() that called sysctl_add_subtree() (or > > whatever you want to call it) upon loading. > > Seems reasonable to me. The only problem with this is likely to be > OID_AUTO, which I happen to think is bogus anyway. It is vital that > we maintain the ability to reference sysctl entities by compile-time > constant integers, so as not to break backwards compatibility with > other 4.4 systems and the Stevens books. Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering of nodes. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message