From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 16:29:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38293D25; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:75::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5DCAE83; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ralph.baldwin.cx (pool-173-70-85-31.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net [173.70.85.31]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7A9AB9B1; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:29:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mateusz Guzik Subject: Re: svn commit: r273401 - head/sys/kern Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:43:20 -0400 Message-ID: <5873867.B31rYEIzUD@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/10.1-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.14.2; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20141026015743.GE19066@dft-labs.eu> References: <201410211905.s9LJ5jDb032492@svn.freebsd.org> <201410231214.04027.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141026015743.GE19066@dft-labs.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:29:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Mateusz Guzik X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:29:23 -0000 On Sunday, October 26, 2014 02:57:43 AM Mateusz Guzik wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:14:03PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > I specifically added sysctl_lock/unlock so that next folk with similar > usecse will not have to. So I'm not going to remove it, but if you > really don't like it feel free to do it. However, if there isn't a future use case that needs it then it is just obfuscation. :-/ Given how static the sysctl code is in terms of API changes, etc. I strongly doubt there will be a future use case any time soon. -- John Baldwin