From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 10 21:16:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06143 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:16:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06134 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA05798; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:22:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199901110522.VAA05798@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions In-Reply-To: <199901110458.UAA86420@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 10, 1999 8:58:53 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:22:59 -0800 (PST) Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, mike@smith.net.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Mike Smith: > Since it's quite clear you really haven't grasped the core of the > problem, I'll present you with a simple example, and you can explain to > me how you propose to deal with it. > > I have a driver for a new peripheral. It's from a vendor that doesn't > want to distribute source code, so the driver comes as a KLD module. > The driver has a number of tuning options, which are exposed via the > sysctl MIB. Let's call this driver foobar. > Please explain how I am to find documentation for these tuning options > in the system manpages. Suggest how your approach is better than, for man foobar -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message