From owner-cvs-all Sun Nov 17 5:11:27 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048F537B401; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 05:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADEC43E88; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 05:11:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 9895CAE345; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 05:11:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 05:11:15 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bruce Evans Cc: Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_aio.c src/lib/libc/gen sysconf.c src/sys/posix4 posix4.h posix4_mib.c Message-ID: <20021117131115.GI6882@elvis.mu.org> References: <200211170724.gAH7OHkQ000622@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021117184717.X21842-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021117184717.X21842-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bruce Evans [021116 23:49] wrote: > > Yes; options that are so option that you need an another option to tell > if they are optional were far too complicated. I may nuke this as long as people are ok with me removing the hardcoded sysctl constants. > The CTL_P1003_1B_* constants seem to be in now (I'm 10 > days behind -current). Couldn't all of these be OID_AUTO and not have > pre-assigned numbers? Having to preassign the numbers gets in the way > of even incremental development of the features (assuming sysctl does > the right thing for completely unimplemented features). I think I can fix most of this if we're ok with breaking the hardcoded constant sysctls and go to using sysctlbyname. Is that ok? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message