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Date:      Wed, 02 Jun 2004 12:50:31 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The new dev sysctl tree
Message-ID:  <xzppt8idyiw.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040601182949.GC9228@elvis.mu.org> (Maxime Henrion's message of "Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:29:49 %2B0200")
References:  <20040601182949.GC9228@elvis.mu.org>

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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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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