YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> Heck, I'm almost to the point where I've felt I've spent too much time
>> arguing about this and *I* should just go and convert them all. 
>>     
>
> i'd like to see something like solaris kstat rather than
> "everything by sysctl".
> (well, it's on my todo list, but no eta.)
>
> YAMAMOTO Takashi
>   
For retrieval of stats, a kstat like interface might be the way to go.

For control and tunables, sysctl is probably better.

There are probably other ideas besides. :-)  The point is, almost
anything is better then groveling.  Maybe a dedicated i2c bitbang
interface might be worse than groveling.  But not much.

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