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Date:      Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:28:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updated ec-burst.diff patch
Message-ID:  <20030703102627.D92002@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030703.052315.32736625.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20030701103125.R87367@root.org> <3F021133.3040306@kasimir.com> <20030701164231.M88547@root.org> <20030703.052315.32736625.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20030701164231.M88547@root.org>
>             Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
> : On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Florian Smeets wrote:
> : > I set hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode=0 in loader.conf but when i was trying to
> : > chek if it was set to 0 with sysctl hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode i got :
> : >
> : > flo@lappi [~] 15 #sysctl hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode
> : > sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode'
> :
> : It's a tunable, not a sysctl.  So you can only set it in loader.conf.  Are
> : there any messages when you boot with that in your loader.conf?  Would you
> : please post a separate dmesg for that case?
>
> I personally think that all tunable should be read-only (or rw if
> possible) sysctls...

I'm still not sure why we have both mechanisms.  Perhaps a useful approach
would be to sweep the tree for tunables and change them to sysctls with
appropriate permissions (read-only if in doubt).  Then remove the tunable
mechanism.  Care to put together a patch?

-Nate



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