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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:08:26 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r247814 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/cam/ctl sys/conf sys/i386/conf
Message-ID:  <201303131108.27005.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130312210921.GB1390@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <201303042118.r24LIj5e008913@svn.freebsd.org> <20130312210921.GB1390@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 5:09:21 pm Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:18:45PM +0000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > Author: ken
> > Date: Mon Mar  4 21:18:45 2013
> > New Revision: 247814
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/247814
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Re-enable CTL in GENERIC on i386 and amd64, but turn on the CTL disable
> >   tunable by default.
> >   
> >   This will allow GENERIC configurations to boot on small memory boxes, but
> >   not require end users who want to use CTL to recompile their kernel.  They
> >   can simply set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0 in loader.conf.
> 
> Could you rename it to kern.cam.ctl.enable(d)? There was discussion at
> some point about sysctl/tunable names and the consensus was, AFAIR, to
> use positive(?) names as they are more obvious.

Except that all the hints we use for devices are hint.foo.X.disable=1 :)

-- 
John Baldwin



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