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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: mike@smith.net.au, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: kvm question
Cc: archie@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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>Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, 
>not numbered.  OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering 
>of nodes.

OID_AUTO is not bogus.  It is just an implementation detail.
The sysctl data structures have to have a place to put a number for
old-style numbered sysctls, and you put OID_AUTO in that place when
you don't want a number.

Bruce

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