On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Why are the descriptions compiled into kernel? That seems as a waste
> of space. They are perfectly fine being in the manpage, IMHO.

Given that many sysctls are undocumented, there seems to be a certain use
for putting the description near the code. Also, updating the kernel won't
update the manpage.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>