Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:56:35 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The new dev sysctl tree Message-ID: <14402.1086159395@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:29:49 %2B0200." <20040601182949.GC9228@elvis.mu.org>
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In message <20040601182949.GC9228@elvis.mu.org>, Maxime Henrion writes: >Dag-Erling recently committed some code that makes it extremely easy >and convenient to have per-devices sysctl. I changed the fxp(4) >driver to use this new framework for its sysctls, which allows to >remove a bit of code from this driver. > >However, there is a significant drawback. For instance, what used to >be "hw.fxp0.int_delay" is now called (on my box) : >"dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.pcib0.pci0.fxp0.int_delay". This is one of the major reasons why I hate Solaris device handling :-) Flatten it please. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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