Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 23:23:22 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, msmith@freebsd.org Subject: Dynamic sysctls (Re: Per CPU timekeeping for SMP) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912172318070.25253-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <199912171941.LAA25185@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: > I have also figured out how to dynamically register sysctl nodes. > The trick is to basically malloc a sysctl_oid and fill in the right > fields and calling sysctl_register_oid. The code is in a kernel > module available from: > > http://sharmas.dhs.org/~adsharma/projects/freebsd/sysctl.tar.gz > > It really needs to go into the base kernel. Also, I think > sysctl_register_long and its yet to be written friends (register_int) > etc, need to go into kern_sysctl - so that others can reuse the code > to dynamically create sysctl nodes. I was thinking exactly about the same, and I was going to implement them myself... IMO these patches should go to the tree - without them the work that Mike Smith put into sysctl infrastructure is much less useful for average Joe Kernel Hacker... Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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