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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.

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