addition of sysctl nodes after compile time

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Sun Oct 24 00:54:08 UTC 2010


On Thu Oct 21 10, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Alexander Best wrote:
> 
> >does this limitation still exist?
> 
> Sysctls can be added dynamically using the sysctl_add_oid(9) KPI, which has 
> existed (as far as I'm aware) at least since FreeBSD 4.x.  It could be that 
> this KPI provides the functionality required to do what the comment 
> describes.

thanks a lot for the hint. maybe i'll hack into the cd driver and see if i can
make the minimum and maximum timeout values apply to specific devices.

cheers.
alex

> 
> Robert

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