Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:11:11 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= <eri@freebsd.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, svn-src-user@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r243458 - in user/andre/tcp_workqueue/sys: net netinet Message-ID: <CAPBZQG3cWBfgwXR_1Q%2BZjSOsE13PeOK12AjqFkgYay%2Bh-Xcpig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20121123152741.GZ84121@FreeBSD.org> References: <201211231453.qANErSKF034907@svn.freebsd.org> <20121123152741.GZ84121@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote: > Frankly speaking, the fact that the list can't be set directly > in one sysctl oid: > > sysctl net.inet.pfil_in.hooks="pf,ipfw,ipfilter" > > , but can only be set via suppling pointless numeric values to N > oids looks very poor from perspective of an average user. He might > think something like "oh, FreeBSD developers were too lazy to parse > a string", or "they designed an interface not for people but for nerds". > > Interface must be easier! If you don't like parsing strings in kernel, > then /sbin/pfilctl can be introduced. The utility eventually may grow > more functionality. > I already gave a link to already existing patch for this. Not sure why andre@ decided the other way around. -- Ermal
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