> + .Pp > + Sysctl nodes provided by drivers should not be considered to be > + permanant unless they are documented in the driver's man page. > + Names which start with _ denote a tree or node which is considered > + impermanant and should not be relied up by code elsewhere in the > + system. > + Driver writers should use the sysctl infrastructure provided by > + .Xr device_get_sysctl_ctx 9 > + and > + .Xr device_get_sysctl_tree 9 > + for their sysctls. > + Drivers should migrate from past interfaces to this new > interface, but > + provide, where needed, backwards compatibility shims. > + These facilities export the sysctl as > dev.<driver-name>.<unit>.attribute. Should sound drivers (pcm* device) be documented as an exception from this? They use snd_sysctl_tree_top() to get tree OID under hw.snd.pcmX and snd_sysctl_tree() to get their context. Yuriy.Received on Wed May 24 2006 - 08:40:06 UTC
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