From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 29 6:37:58 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ywing.creative.net.au (ywing.creative.net.au [203.56.168.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D929637B401; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 06:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@ywing.creative.net.au) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by ywing.creative.net.au (8.11.4/8.9.3) id f6TDbnw39294; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:37:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:37:49 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd To: Greg Lehey Cc: Warner Losh , Brooks Davis , Mike Smith , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c src/sys/kern subr_param.c kern_mib.c src/sys/sys systm.h Message-ID: <20010729153749.A33613@ywing.creative.net.au> References: <20010728140844.B27582@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010727162625.7262738FE@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200107282058.f6SKvwJ02435@mass.dis.org> <20010728140844.B27582@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200107282249.f6SMnLw25589@harmony.village.org> <20010729101642.D68202@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010729101642.D68202@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:16:42AM +0930 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 29, 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 28 July 2001 at 16:49:21 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <20010728140844.B27582@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Brooks Davis writes: > >> One suggestion here. It would be nice if this file listed every tunable > >> even if they are documented elseware. Just a simple "see pcic(4)" or > >> was ever would be nice. That way there's one place to start when you > >> go "WTF is this hw.ata.wc thing?" > > > > Well, there's always: > > > > hw.ata > > see ata(4) > > > > hw.pcic > > see pcic(4) > > > > hw.something-else > > The something else option controls when something happens. > > It does seem to make sense to have a cross-reference in sysctl(8). I > think it needs to be more than this level, too. More like: > > hw.ata sysctls relating to the ATA driver. See ata(4). > hw.ata.ata_dma Control DMA transfers. > hw.ata.wc Control write caching > hw.ata.tags Control tagged queueing > hw.ata.atapi_dma Control DMA for ATAPI CD-ROMs. We're about to hit the "extract documentation from the sysctl definitions" request, again .. :-) Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message