Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
>
> > I have also figured out how to dynamically register sysctl nodes.
> > The trick is to basically malloc a sysctl_oid and fill in the right
> > fields and calling sysctl_register_oid. The code is in a kernel
> > module available from:
> >
> > http://sharmas.dhs.org/~adsharma/projects/freebsd/sysctl.tar.gz
> >
> > It really needs to go into the base kernel. Also, I think
> > sysctl_register_long and its yet to be written friends (register_int)
> > etc, need to go into kern_sysctl - so that others can reuse the code
> > to dynamically create sysctl nodes.
>
> I was thinking exactly about the same, and I was going to implement them
> myself... IMO these patches should go to the tree - without them the work
> that Mike Smith put into sysctl infrastructure is much less useful for
> average Joe Kernel Hacker...
Err.. That was Doug Rabson (dfr) who fixed the sysctl stuff to finish
making it dynamic. sysctl_register_xxx() are wrappers around
sysctl_register_oid(), but I guess it's ok to make some helper functions to
make the existing functionality to make it easier to use.
Cheers,
-Peter
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