cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica/Osd OsdTable.c src/sys/sys kernel.h src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf.5 src/share/man/man4 acpi.4

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 13 February 2004 10:17 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> njl         2004/02/13 19:17:30 PST
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/dev/acpica/Osd   OsdTable.c
>     sys/sys              kernel.h
>     sys/boot/forth       loader.conf.5
>     share/man/man4       acpi.4
>   Log:
>   Fix hw.acpi.os_name by renaming it to hw.acpi.osname.  The "_name" suffix
>   is reserved by the loader, and thus any tunable name with that suffix
> will be silently discarded.
>
>   Document this in the header and man page so that other developers do not
>   develop so many bumps on the head after banging it against the wall.
>
>   Detective work by:      Mark Santcroos, grehan

Aha, cute.  Note that _load, _before, _after, _type, _flags, and _error are 
also "magic".

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