Documenting machdep.enable_panic_key?
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Fri Jul 30 20:05:50 PDT 2004
Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was scratching my head about this today. What do people
> think about the following patch? I can file a PR for it.
>
>
> --- usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdmap.5.orig Fri Jul 30 00:41:05 2004
> +++ usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdmap.5 Fri Jul 30 00:42:54 2004
> @@ -229,7 +229,11 @@
> Activate screen saver
> by toggling between splash/text screen.
> .It panic
> -Panic the system.
> +Panic the system. The
> +.Xr sysctl 8
> +variable
> +.Va machdep.enable_panic_key
> +must be set to 1 to enable this feature.
> .It paste
> Act as mouse buffer paste.
> .El
> --- sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c.orig Fri Jul 30 00:36:41 2004
> +++ sys/dev/syscons/syscons.c Fri Jul 30 00:48:19 2004
> @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
>
> static int enable_panic_key;
> SYSCTL_INT(_machdep, OID_AUTO, enable_panic_key, CTLFLAG_RW, &enable_panic_key,
> - 0, "");
> + 0, "Enable panic via keypress specified in kbdmap(5)");
>
> #define SC_CONSOLECTL 255
>
>
>
This looks reasonable. I'll commit it tomorrow if someone doesn't beat
me to it.
Scott
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