From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 9 14:19:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22593 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:19:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22588 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA16761; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:20:54 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:20:54 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions In-Reply-To: <17480.915909238@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >If having sysctl descriptions in the kernel really is a problem for > >some people, it's trivial to add a kernel option to disable my code. > > It is, just ask small@freebsd.org what adding a lot of text to the > kernel will do. > > Many sysctl descriptions would need to be several kbyte worth of > ascii to come even close to a decent description. > > If you insist on putting it in the kernel, stick it in a section which > isn't loaded by default, and have sysctl(8) pull it out of kern.bootfile. Well, it's no problem for me if it's either hidden behind kernel config option, or put in separate ELF section so that I can strip it (without breaking sysctl(3), of course!). Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message