svn commit: r243458 - in user/andre/tcp_workqueue/sys: net netinet

Ermal Luçi eri at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 23 16:11:13 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:

>   Frankly speaking, the fact that the list can't be set directly
> in one sysctl oid:
>
>         sysctl net.inet.pfil_in.hooks="pf,ipfw,ipfilter"
>
> , but can only be set via suppling pointless numeric values to N
> oids looks very poor from perspective of an average user. He might
> think something like "oh, FreeBSD developers were too lazy to parse
> a string", or "they designed an interface not for people but for nerds".
>
>   Interface must be easier! If you don't like parsing strings in kernel,
> then /sbin/pfilctl can be introduced. The utility eventually may grow
> more functionality.
>

I already gave a link to already existing patch for this.
Not sure why andre@ decided the other way around.



-- 
Ermal


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