From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Sep 17 13:44:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A16137B422; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA87299; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:44:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA25218; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:43:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009172043.OAA25218@harmony.village.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" Subject: Re: sysctl on boot. Cc: Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.org, sjr@home.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:34:46 EDT." <200009172034.e8HKYk525175@green.dyndns.org> References: <200009172034.e8HKYk525175@green.dyndns.org> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:43:58 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200009172034.e8HKYk525175@green.dyndns.org> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : IOW, it would add complexity but not gain anything that postponing rc.sysctl : or adding a secondary rc wouldn't gain. So I wouldn't bother with that :) : You're making it seem like we need a registry. I'd be a million times : happier if a kldload(2) specified a hints file that could be used easily. I've often thought about adding a sysctl.x.x.x facility like the hint.x.x.x facility, but haven't ad the time. I don't think there are any non-idempotent sysctls that people would be setting from rc.sysctl. However, I think I'm leaning towards a second parameter to /etc/rc.sysctl. The first one would be /etc/sysctl.conf and the second would be /etc/sysctl.modules.conf over the short term. I still think there's value in having a more persistant sysctl facility in the kernel, but will leave that for later. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message