Why is TUNABLE_INT discouraged?

[Garrett Cooper]

2010/10/23 Garrett Cooper <gcooper at freebsd.org>:
> 2010/10/18 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>:
>> Garrett Cooper <gcooper at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> PS I added uquad_t for consistency in the APIs, even though quad_t was
>>> deprecated, but I didn't bump __FreeBSD_version__ -- wasn't sure if I
>>> should have done that).
>>
>> You should bump __FreeBSD_version__ anyway so third-party or shared code
>> can use the new API if it is available and the old one if it isn't.
>>
>>> Let's try with the patch attached...
>>
>> Mailman strips binary attachments.  The correct MIME type is
>> text/x-patch.
>
>    Ok. Let's retry with a .patch extension and by bumping __FreeBSD_version__.

Sorry.. forgot the uquad_t addition to sys/types.h :(...
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