Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:09:15 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-device sysctls Message-ID: <xzphdxdk690.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040226135237.79901X-100000@fledge.watson.org> (Robert Watson's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:57:38 -0500 (EST)") References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040226135237.79901X-100000@fledge.watson.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes: > Having a unified and managed namespace for device sysctls sounds like a > generally good idea to me, as more and more devices require some of > another tweaking. Have you had any thoughts on how to name sysctls and > kernel environment variables on a per-driver basis, rather than a > per-device basis? I.e., fxp and some other device drivers have > configuration settings that affect all instances of devices, rather than > specific instances. It should be easy to add a per-devclass_t or per-driver_t sysctl context and tree. These things are disgustingly easy to create; the only hard part is figuring out when and where to create them. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzphdxdk690.fsf>