From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue May 19 12:21:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24426 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (jonny@roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24368; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19112; Tue, 19 May 1998 16:20:11 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199805191920.QAA19112@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci brooktree848.c In-Reply-To: <199805191613.MAA20615@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "May 19, 98 12:13:08 pm" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:20:11 -0300 (EST) Cc: jonny@jonny.eng.br, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, ahasty@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org #define quoting(Garrett Wollman) // > While I'm here, I'd like to note that sysctl is somewhat like SNMP, // > and SNMP variables have a unit name as this small extract from a // > snmpwalk shows. // // > Things that have the notion of units should reflect this in its // > sysctl, even if 99.999% of people only have one of those interfaces. // // I strongly disagree. Devices that have a notion of units should export // a unit-based interface in the filesystem (i.e., /dev/foo999). sysctl // is very much unsuited to this. (I'm still unhappy about the way I had // to kluge things for the ifmib. At least it works...) Do you have any suggestion, then ? I was indeed comparing sysctl directly to SNMP. Do you mean that this is a wrong approach ? Why ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message