Thoughts about kenv emulating sysctl

[Garrett Cooper]

Hi Aleksandr!

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2012 09:05:47 -0700
> Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:

...

> Hi Garret,
>
> I use it for embedded, kenv is good transport shared by loader, kernel
> and userland (since there is no RW storages).

Indeed.

> IMO, kenv != sysctl, so we not need to match sysctl. But backwards
> 'compatibility' is good reason to select second way.

Which is what I figured; I favored the latter course at first and
developed my patch based on that mindset, because I know people hate
it when backwards compatibility is broken :) (in all fairness I'm
generally one of them).

Thanks!
-Garrett