On 19 October 2010 16:36, Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote: > hi there, > > i stumbled upon this note in the BUGS section of the cd(4) manual: > > "There is no mechanism currently to set different minimum and maximum > timeouts for different CD changers; the timeout values set by the kernel > options or the sysctl variables apply to all LUN-based CD changers in the > system. It is possible to implement such support, but the sysctl imple- > mentation at least would be rather inelegant, because of the current > inability of the sysctl code to handle the addition of nodes after com- > pile time. Thus, it would take one dynamically sized sysctl variable and > a userland utility to get/set the timeout values. Implementation of sep- > arate timeouts for different CD devices in the kernel config file would > likely require modification of config(8) to support the two timeouts when > hardwiring cd devices." > > does this limitation still exist? > > cheers. > alex
No, the limitation is no longer present. See sysctl_add_oid(9) for more details. C. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
