In message <[email protected]> Juha Nurmela writes: : Yes, but (this might be a trademark ;) commonly the arguments would : be used during the sysinit->attach, and at that time sysctl has not yet : been able to change anything. Use of sysctl would require a sidestep : from attach and later continuation with a sysctl_proc. Not a problem, : but inconvenient, IMHO. And it's analogous to executing, they too : can get arguments.
I believe that the plan was to make to have more generic stuff so that all drivers woudln't have to parse argv... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
