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On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Robert Elz wrote:

>Oh, and one last issue - I have no more sympathy for people who say "but I
>don't want to run kernfs" than for people who say "I don't want a /etc".
>At some point things simply need to be considered to be a fundamental part
>of the system, and not optional.

Sure.  And from time to time someone proposes making some component
which has not been a fundamental part of the system necessary for basic
operation.  At such times, it is perfectly valid to question whether
this is a good idea or not.

To this point, it has _not_ been necessary to keep kernfs mounted for
any part of NetBSD's operation.  Furthermore, we provide a very nice API
and command line tool (sysctl(3) and sysctl(8)) to get and set exactly
this kind of information.  Argument over whether sysctl provides a
usable solution to the question at hand is perfectly valid, but making
kernfs mandatory probably is not...

BTW, I agree with the rest of your post.

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@unicast.com

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