Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:56:09 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h Message-ID: <23710.943912569@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:51:52 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911291551300.59489-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911291551300.59489-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>, Bill Fumerola writes: >> In any case, any new sysctl knobs should be adequately documented >> using the relevant documentation field. (And the old knobs should be >> updated as time permits). At worst, we can use a trivial perl or awk >> script to pull the documentation fields out of the source. > >Is it possible to load the descriptions as a kld? My ideal scenario is that the descriptions end up in their own ELF section which isn't loaded. sysctl -d could pick them out of `sysctl kern.bootfile` and various scripts could chew them out of the LINT kernel and spit out mandoc or SGML documentation. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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