Subject: Re: device driver sysctls
To: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Roland C. Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/02/2004 18:29:31
On 1078201502 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
David Young wrote:
>

>I was not clear, sorry.  If I am debugging device attachment, but the
>ath.debug sysctl only appears *after* attachment, it is too late to
>frob it.

You can cause it to come into existence yourself without waiting
for the driver to do it.  The driver just has to recognise that it
already exists and not destroy it when it is attaching.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/