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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: per-device sysctls
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> 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 tha=
n
> > specific instances.
>=20
> 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.

and delete them.

>=20
> DES
> --=20
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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