From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 10 10:58:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29329 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:58:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29319 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:58:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA86347; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:58:19 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901101858.KAA86347@apollo.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer Cc: Mike Smith , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Poul-Henning Kamp , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk :add the conditional to remove the string if not required, :and just do it. :A 1 line description can say a lot including "(see tcp(4))" or whatever. : :On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: : :> > :> > OK, let's just ignore that somebody has spent time and effort to :> > produce actual, working, value-adding code, since we already have :> > vaporware which may or may not become real code some day, and may save :> > us from a 0.04% increaseš of the size of the kernel at the expense of :> > adding yet more complexity to an already burdened build system. :> > :> :> Thanks for the statistic; I think this makes a great case for Just :> Doing It. I don't mind the description string being in the kernel, as long as it: * can be specifically not compiled in w/ an option * is also not compiled in for MAX_PERF kernels -Matt Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications & God knows what else. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message