From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 9 11:46:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04398 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-27.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04390 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:46:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00989; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:45:38 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions In-Reply-To: <17480.915909238@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >If having sysctl descriptions in the kernel really is a problem for > >some people, it's trivial to add a kernel option to disable my code. > > It is, just ask small@freebsd.org what adding a lot of text to the > kernel will do. Yes, but couldn't these things be ignored easily with an ifdef (a.k.a. option)? This way the pedants would get their small kernel, and the rest of us could have English descriptions.. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message