Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:58:19 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions Message-ID: <199901101858.KAA86347@apollo.backplane.com>
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:add the conditional to remove the string if not required,
:and just do it.
:A 1 line description can say a lot including "(see tcp(4))" or whatever.
:
:On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
:
:> > <rant>
:> > OK, let's just ignore that somebody has spent time and effort to
:> > produce actual, working, value-adding code, since we already have
:> > vaporware which may or may not become real code some day, and may save
:> > us from a 0.04% increaseš of the size of the kernel at the expense of
:> > adding yet more complexity to an already burdened build system.
:> > </rant>
:>
:> Thanks for the statistic; I think this makes a great case for Just
:> Doing It.
I don't mind the description string being in the kernel, as long
as it:
* can be specifically not compiled in w/ an option
* is also not compiled in for MAX_PERF kernels
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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