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Date:      Sun, 05 Jul 1998 09:42:56 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@hobby.digiware.nl>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding to sysctl env. 
Message-ID:  <199807051642.JAA05317@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Jul 1998 00:15:22 %2B0200." <199807042215.AAA00277@hobby.digiware.nl> 

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to add things to the sysctl environment, and I thought to take
> a simple step first:
> 	make a debug.switch for the vlink module.
> So I added:
> ----
> /* 
>  *  For the vlink module debugging
>  */   
> static int vlinkxlatedebug = 0;
> SYSCTL_INT(_debug, OID_AUTO, vlinkxlate, CTLFLAG_RW, &vlinkxlatedebug, 0,
> "");
> ----
> expecting to see it apear in my sysctl -a output.
> 
> But guess what: I didn't. :-{

It should have.  Make sure that the source file is actually being built 
as part of the kernel.  You could be more paranoid and remove the 
'static', then try

# nm /kernel | grep vlinkxlate

in order to make sure that the symbol is present in the running kernel.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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