On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Florian Smeets wrote: > : > I set hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode=0 in loader.conf but when i was trying to > : > chek if it was set to 0 with sysctl hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode i got : > : > > : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] 15 #sysctl hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode > : > sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.acpi.ec.burst_mode' > : > : It's a tunable, not a sysctl. So you can only set it in loader.conf. Are > : there any messages when you boot with that in your loader.conf? Would you > : please post a separate dmesg for that case? > > I personally think that all tunable should be read-only (or rw if > possible) sysctls...
I'm still not sure why we have both mechanisms. Perhaps a useful approach would be to sweep the tree for tunables and change them to sysctls with appropriate permissions (read-only if in doubt). Then remove the tunable mechanism. Care to put together a patch? -Nate _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
