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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