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> The disadvantage of sysctl() is that it assume you have only a single
> instance of a device-type.  That ain't necessarily so.

you can't have everything :)
And who has multiple cards and wants to have some default to PAL
and some others default to NTSC anyways...

In any case if we are really desperate we can have hw.card.feature
and hw.card.feature..unit to set things differently for the various
units.

	luigi