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In message: <xzpy8n5knp1.fsf@dwp.des.no>
            des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> writes:
: > Not having the ability to deal with global settings is a bit
: > of a pain.  I had envisioned that something like this would
: > be:
: >
: > dev.fxp.N.instance_variable
: > dev.fxp.global_variable
: =

: This should be fairly easy to do.  I'll try to come up with some
: patches.

How about an API?  How does the driver deal with the global/instance
variable split?  If I set dev.fxp.gerbil to 1 and dev.fxp.1.gerbil to
23?  Is that order dependent?

Warner