Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:20:45 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: des@des.no Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-device sysctls Message-ID: <20040226.112045.82374099.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpk729lnq7.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <xzpk729lnq7.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
: The first of the attached patches creates a sysctl context and node
: for every device in the system named for its nameunit. Each device's=
: sysctl node is a child of the parent device's sysctl node, so the
: resulting sysctl tree resembles the "show devices by attachment" mode=
: of Windows's device manager. Standard entries in each device's tree
: include %class, %desc and %driver (device class, device description
: and driver name). I also plan to add entries for device IDs, irq /
: drq lines etc., but this will require additional bus-specific code an=
d
: is not yet implemented.
How is this different than the sysctl stuff that already exsists for
this and is accessed by devinfo?
Warner
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