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Subject: Re: per-device sysctls
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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes:
> Having a unified and managed namespace for device sysctls sounds like a
> generally good idea to me, as more and more devices require some of
> another tweaking.  Have you had any thoughts on how to name sysctls and
> kernel environment variables on a per-driver basis, rather than a
> per-device basis?  I.e., fxp and some other device drivers have
> configuration settings that affect all instances of devices, rather than
> specific instances.

It should be easy to add a per-devclass_t or per-driver_t sysctl
context and tree.  These things are disgustingly easy to create; the
only hard part is figuring out when and where to create them.

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