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Re: Adding 'i386_use_pae' variable, and expose it through sysctl



On 15.08.2010 17:23, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 02:30:46PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
>>
>> Shall it be added for all other archs then? I assume that they can all
>> benefit from the dynamic sysctl(9) interface?
> 
> You can't do it for existing OIDs, that breaks binary compatibility.

Sure; I was just talking about the comment part, where we add a note
that new sysctl(7) shall get added using the dynamic sysctl interface.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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