On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 20:14, Socketd wrote: > > I'm not an ACPI developer, but I really like the sysctl > > interface, because it enables you to retrieve information > > from within scripts easily. For ioctls you would have to > > write a separate tool to be able to access it. > > I think the list of sysctl entries is pretty long as it is.
sysctl is suited toward the type of information ACPI provides though - ie it's tree structure. I don't think it's going to be any better to have an enormous number of ioctls for ACPI :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
