Thank you! :)
So, the 6.0 -> 6.1 guide incorrectly refers to the sysctl setting as
renamed, but at
that point they actually do co-exist, and therefore both work until
upgrade to 6.2.
Maybe the 6.2 announcement/upgrade guide should have a list of settings
that has actually been replaced/removed. That is at least how I'm used
to reading documentation/announcements.
Maybe I'm just being overly meticulous, but I have found many small
things like this creating lots of confusing about OpenBSD :)
//Karl
On 11/19/17 00:59, Theo Buehler wrote:
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 09:47:41PM +0100, pledge wrote:
Hello
I just upgraded my laptop 6.1 -> 6.2.
Suddenly it appears that the sysctl setting machdep.lidsuspend was gone.
I checked the whats new site https://www.openbsd.org/62.html and
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade62.html but found no information there.
Interestingly, on https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade61.html there is this
note:
"*sysctl machdep.lidsuspend renamed to machdep.lidaction.* The
machdep.lidsuspend sysctl variable has been renamed to machdep.lidaction.
Setting it to 2 hibernates the machine when the lid is closed. Update
sysctl.conf(5) <https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.1/sysctl.conf.5> to use
the new name."
So it appears that this note was on the wrong page? Since I was using it on
6.1 it can't have been renamed.
It was deprecated during the 6.1 release cycle
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c#rev1.224
and accordingly, its deprecation was announced on upgrade61.html. The
machdep.lidsuspend sysctl was left functioning to ease the transition.
During the 6.2 release cycle it was definitely removed:
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c#rev1.231
Also, where can I find documentation about what more options there are to
machdep.lidaction?
The machdep sysctls are only briefly explained in comments in
/etc/examples/sysctl.conf, as sysctl(3) is already very long.
Here are the machdep sysctls for amd64:
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/etc.amd64/sysctl.conf?annotate=1.7
