cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica/Osd OsdTable.c src/sys/syskernel.h src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf.5 src/share/man/man4 acpi.4

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Tue Feb 17 12:49:56 PST 2004


On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 10:17 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > njl         2004/02/13 19:17:30 PST
> >
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/dev/acpica/Osd   OsdTable.c
> >     sys/sys              kernel.h
> >     sys/boot/forth       loader.conf.5
> >     share/man/man4       acpi.4
> >   Log:
> >   Fix hw.acpi.os_name by renaming it to hw.acpi.osname.  The "_name" suffix
> >   is reserved by the loader, and thus any tunable name with that suffix
> > will be silently discarded.
> >
> >   Document this in the header and man page so that other developers do not
> >   develop so many bumps on the head after banging it against the wall.
> >
> >   Detective work by:      Mark Santcroos, grehan
>
> Aha, cute.  Note that _load, _before, _after, _type, _flags, and _error are
> also "magic".

Yeah, I noted all this in the man page.

-Nate


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