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.

there is a fine place for documentation and it is *not* in the kernel
text/data.  unless there is a compelling reason for this change (and
"keeping sysctl documentation upto date" doesn't even begin to count),
i don't see that it's a good one in the slightest.


.mrg.