per-device sysctls

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040226.130330.54448406.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:

>: Just for the record:  Having based this on newbus it only documents
>: hardware-anchored device drivers.  I don't know if this is going to
>: be a limitation we will have to address or not, but I think you should
>: reserve the toplevel name "pseudo" or "sw" or similar as a placeholder
>: for non-hardware device drivers, just in case.
>
>There's not really a tree for pseudo devices right now.  They just are
>kludged into the system any old way that they can be at the moment.
>They aren't part of the hardware device hierarchy.

As long as we agree that this is for hardware only and limited to
that, then I have no problems.

I still think it prudent to nail down "pseudo" or "sw" or something
should we change our mind.

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