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To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: The new dev sysctl tree
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Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> writes:
> So I made a patch to flatten this sysctl tree.  This doesn't cause any
> conflict since attached drivers' names are unique.  As a consequence,
> we lose the hierarchy information from the sysctl tree, however I
> believe this isn't a problem since we can get this information with
> devinfo(8) already.

No objections from me.

>                      If for some reason, we really need the hierarchy
> information in this sysctl tree, I can easily add a .parent sysctl to
> each device node.

That would be nice.

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