From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue May 19 09:15:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17060 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 09:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16870; Tue, 19 May 1998 09:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20615; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:13:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 12:13:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199805191613.MAA20615@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty), luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c In-Reply-To: <199805191558.MAA16087@roma.coe.ufrj.br> References: <199805190655.XAA00354@rah.star-gate.com> <199805191558.MAA16087@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > While I'm here, I'd like to note that sysctl is somewhat like SNMP, > and SNMP variables have a unit name as this small extract from a > snmpwalk shows. > Things that have the notion of units should reflect this in its > sysctl, even if 99.999% of people only have one of those interfaces. I strongly disagree. Devices that have a notion of units should export a unit-based interface in the filesystem (i.e., /dev/foo999). sysctl is very much unsuited to this. (I'm still unhappy about the way I had to kluge things for the ifmib. At least it works...) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message