In message <4231FCCE.5050204@ksu.edu>, James Chacon writes:

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>Hmmm...it really should be optional to include most of the sysctl 
>framework in kernels. Not only for tiny but just in general on wanting 
>to shrink kernels for embedded things.
>
Up to a point, yes, but I'm glad you used the word "most" -- I've heard 
the suggestion that that much of the device- or medium-dependent ifconfig 
mechanisms should be moved into sysctl.  That's a good idea -- ifconfig 
is getting very bloated.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb