On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > Yes, this is very true. But I think we are fooling ourselves if we
> > > believe linux emulation will not become 'standard' in the near future.
> > > Then we'll kick ourselves for giving the sysctl's convoluted names :-)
> >
> > Yeah... Then, the next in line after "linux" are: ibcs2 and svr4 and
> > whatever comes next. Can you live with them as main sysctl categories?
>
> Adding anything at the top level would be a terrible mistake.
>
> Given that "ABI" is a bit obscure, kern.compat is the only sensible
> choice.
One one hand you're right (it is a compatibility stub) but OTOH it is also
a kernel module... ;-)
Perhaps modules like this will want to have their stuff in BOTH places,
i.e. in kernel.compat and in kernel.modules, depending what the given
sysctl does.
Andrzej Bialecki
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