Subject: Re: device driver sysctls
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: William Waites <ww@styx.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/05/2004 01:11:33
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:57:43PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:08:04PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> > > 
> > > 	driver.ath.<global variable>
> > > 	driver.ath.0.<instance variable>
> > > 
> 
> why do you need to use sysctl?  isn't ioctl enough?

Because there is a generic userland sysctl
program?

> having two similar paths to a device driver
> seems redundant to me.

I agree with this.

/w
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