From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 29 13:58:14 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F319D14E00; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA23712; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:56:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bill Fumerola Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dan Moschuk , 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:51:52 EST." Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:56:09 +0100 Message-ID: <23710.943912569@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message , 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