<<On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:04:15 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs <arc...@whistle.com> said:
> Peter pointed out that having the sysctl's as symbols was a nice > advantage of the current system. How important is this? I don't think it's important at all. (Then again, I liked the old system.) > If we were willing to give this up, then the SYSCTL() macro could > just expand to a SYSINIT() that called sysctl_add_subtree() (or > whatever you want to call it) upon loading. Seems reasonable to me. The only problem with this is likely to be OID_AUTO, which I happen to think is bogus anyway. It is vital that we maintain the ability to reference sysctl entities by compile-time constant integers, so as not to break backwards compatibility with other 4.4 systems and the Stevens books. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
