Re: kern/59165: vio9p(4): expose tag through sysctl or device properties

["Christoph Badura via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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From: Christoph Badura <bad%bsd.de@localhost>
To: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/59165: vio9p(4): expose tag through sysctl or device
 properties
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:38:42 +0200

 Darn, I wanted to reply earlier.
 
 On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 04:46:28PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
 > That reminds me of a RESTful API that requires listing up available endpoints.
 
 I was reminded of SNMP.
 
 > I agree with the demand for discoverability, but in this case (sysctl
 > MIBs) I don't
 > desire it so much because, as you said, we can know the existing of sysctl MIBs
 > by using grep, etc. The proposed MIB design may help to make scripts simple,
 > but I'm not sure if it's essential for everyone.
 
 That's fine for scripts that run infrequently.  But it doesn't really work
 for stuff like systat or node_exporter which would query the MIB
 frequently.
 
 But we can address that later if the need arrives.
 
 --chris