Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 05:03:35 -0500 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh src/sys/sys sysctl.h src/usr.bin/uname uname.1 uname.c Message-ID: <20030609050335.A51258@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <17497.1055152402@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@phk.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:53:22AM %2B0200 References: <200306090938.h599cKFZ059077@repoman.freebsd.org> <17497.1055152402@critter.freebsd.dk>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> [ Date: 2003-06-09 ] [ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh src/sys/sys sysctl.h src/usr.bin/uname uname.1 uname.c ] > In message <200306090938.h599cKFZ059077@repoman.freebsd.org>, Juli Mallett writ > es: > >jmallett 2003/06/09 02:38:20 PDT > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/conf newvers.sh > > sys/sys sysctl.h > > usr.bin/uname uname.1 uname.c > > Log: > > Make kernel identification (`ident' in the config(8) driver) available to > > userland, and the kernel. In the kernel by way of the 'ident[]' variable > > akin to all the other stuff generated by newvers.sh. In userland it is > > available to sysctl consumers via KERN_IDENT or 'kern.ident'. It is exported > > by uname(1) by the -i flag. > > Please remove the KERN_IDENT definition and use OID_AUTO. We should > not add more hardcoded OID's without a very good reason, and this isn't > one. I was doing it that way for consistency with other things from newvers. Which source file would you like the definition to go into, so that I can use OID_AUTO? Thanx, juli. -- juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; efnet: juli;
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