Re: sysctl -> sysctl -w

Dima Dorfman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since the sysctl -w option was deprecated, we've occasionally seen
> commits that remove its usage from various parts of the tree.  Instead
> of seeing this go on in piecemeal, I'd like to fix most of them in one
> commit.  The following patch fixes this everywhere except contrib/,
> some of the KAME stuff (it should stay there, since KAME supports
> other BSDs, which still require -w), and some stuff that's still on a
> vendor branch (share/doc/smm and some stuff in picobsd; I didn't think
> it was worth taking it off for something like this).
> 
> If anyone knows why I shouldn't commit this, please speak up.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Index: UPDATING
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /ref/cvsf/src/UPDATING,v
> retrieving revision 1.203
> diff -u -r1.203 UPDATING
> --- UPDATING	25 Apr 2002 14:41:39 -0000	1.203
> +++ UPDATING	6 May 2002 07:57:59 -0000
> @@ -861,7 +861,7 @@
>  	If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they
>  	don't work well.  Use pio mode instead.  The easiest way to
>  	cope if you have a problem combination is to add:
> -		/sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
> +		/sbin/sysctl hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
>  	to the start of /etc/rc.conf.
>  
>  20000319:

I don't think you should commit that part.  It's for the past, anyway.  
Heck, the sysctl doesn't even exist anymore ;-)

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