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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