sysctl_ctx_init.9 from HEAD to RELENG_6:
Add a basic man page for the sysctl(9) macro interfaces. Previously man
pages existed only for the dynamic sysctl interfaces. There's probably
more complete and accurate content, better advice, etc, that could be
added here.
Per scottl's suggest, add a small piece of moralizing text regarding the
fact that sysctl names quickly get embedded in system configuration files,
libraries, third party applications, and even books, so renaming and
removing names after they've been published is a tricky issue.
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Fix typo.
Submitted by: Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin@laposte dot net>
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Fix a couple of typos and other minor nits
Reviewed by: rwatson
Fix version number when the feature was added.
Submitted by: Yoshihiko Sarumaru (mistral at imasy dot or dot jp)
PR: docs/93801 and docs/93803
Approved by: re (kensmith)
firmware(9) is a subsystem to load binary data into the kernel via a
specially crafted module. There are several handrolled sollutions to this
problem in the tree already which will be replaced with this. They
include iwi(4), ipw(4), ispfw(4) and digi(4).
Approved by: re(scottl)
HEAD to RELENG_6:
Add discussion of Giant, the MPSAFE flag, and NDHASGIANT() to namei(9).
Add a VFS_LOCK_GIANT(9)/VFS_UNLOCK_GIANT(9) man page.
Discussed with: jeff
Approved by: re (hrs)
Make callout_reset() return a non-zero value if a pending callout
was rescheduled. If there was no pending callout, then return 0.
Reviewed by: iedowse, cperciva
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Update man page to reflect the fact that VOP_LISTEXTATTR
does not return a list of ASCII NUL terminated strings.
Instead, a list of attribute names is returned, where each
list entry consists of one byte for the name length, followed
by the name, without a terminating ASCII NUL.
This in similar to change 1.17 to extattr_get_file.2
Reviewed by: rwatson, ru
Approved by: re (hrs)
implementation. I took the NetBSD man page, and hacked it to, I hope,
to reflect the preliminary version of the bus space that Justin Gibbs
committed as part of the CAM integration in FreeBSD 3.0.
This isn't perfect, but it is better than we have now (which is, ahem,
nothing). Please coordinate changes to the file through me through
the 6.0 release.
Approved by: re (blanket for this one file)
phys_start and phys_end.
Remove a stale documentation not about dis/uncontiguous memory.
Update manual page date while I am around these ends.
Reviewed by: alc
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
