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Subject: Re: svn commit: r275136 - in head/sys: dev/e1000 dev/ixgbe kern sys
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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