Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:53:10 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901250951330.21763-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199901242111.NAA05078@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > <<On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:04:15 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> said: > > > > > Peter pointed out that having the sysctl's as symbols was a nice > > > advantage of the current system. How important is this? > > > > I don't think it's important at all. (Then again, I liked the old > > system.) > > > > > If we were willing to give this up, then the SYSCTL() macro could > > > just expand to a SYSINIT() that called sysctl_add_subtree() (or > > > whatever you want to call it) upon loading. > > > > Seems reasonable to me. The only problem with this is likely to be > > OID_AUTO, which I happen to think is bogus anyway. It is vital that > > we maintain the ability to reference sysctl entities by compile-time > > constant integers, so as not to break backwards compatibility with > > other 4.4 systems and the Stevens books. > > Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, > not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering > of nodes. ...that is, IFF we're going to keep the number/name pairs as OIDs, and not only the numbers, which seems more appropriate... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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