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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 2014 07:29:28 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r275136 - in head/sys: dev/e1000 dev/ixgbe kern sys
Message-ID:  <5E1B6CD4-BBA7-4AD0-9982-E981015AF138@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <547C88A9.1070007@selasky.org>
References:  <201411262019.sAQKJaw4043557@svn.freebsd.org> <39377603.10OyiSzjWY@ralph.baldwin.cx> <872C180A-6ADD-469F-A801-3728DF134EEC@mu.org> <547C88A9.1070007@selasky.org>

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> On Dec 1, 2014, at 7:26 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On 12/01/14 16:19, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> It makes little sense to have a rw sysctl that only takes effect "some ti=
mes". This violates POLA at the expense of making code appear cleaner. Expec=
tation is that writable sysctls take
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I think you are missing a new feature in 11-current, that if you add "CTLFL=
AG_TUN" to even dynamic sysctls, they get initialized from the enviroment, i=
f any. That way you can just skip the TUNABLE_INT_FETCH() stuff!
>=20

Ok I can probably switch to that.=20

Any objection if I mfc this feature to -stable if it does what I need?




> --HPS
>=20



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