The new dev sysctl tree
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Jun 1 23:56:38 PDT 2004
In message <20040601182949.GC9228 at elvis.mu.org>, Maxime Henrion writes:
>Dag-Erling recently committed some code that makes it extremely easy
>and convenient to have per-devices sysctl. I changed the fxp(4)
>driver to use this new framework for its sysctls, which allows to
>remove a bit of code from this driver.
>
>However, there is a significant drawback. For instance, what used to
>be "hw.fxp0.int_delay" is now called (on my box) :
>"dev.root0.nexus0.acpi0.pcib0.pci0.fxp0.int_delay".
This is one of the major reasons why I hate Solaris device handling :-)
Flatten it please.
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