From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 17 16:30:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5121514D; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA15979; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:29:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:16:11 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic sysctls (Re: Per CPU timekeeping for SMP) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: > > > I have also figured out how to dynamically register sysctl nodes. > > The trick is to basically malloc a sysctl_oid and fill in the right > > fields and calling sysctl_register_oid. The code is in a kernel > > module available from: > > > > http://sharmas.dhs.org/~adsharma/projects/freebsd/sysctl.tar.gz > > > > It really needs to go into the base kernel. Also, I think > > sysctl_register_long and its yet to be written friends (register_int) > > etc, need to go into kern_sysctl - so that others can reuse the code > > to dynamically create sysctl nodes. > Can this patch be applied to FreeBSD 3.3-Release? If so, is it difficult to do so? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message