svn commit: r211029 - projects/sv/sys/net

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Sun Aug 8 11:58:16 UTC 2010


On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:39:22PM +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:

> Author: attilio
> Date: Sat Aug  7 17:39:22 2010
> New Revision: 211029
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/211029
> 
> Log:
>   Add a tunable for nd_enable.
>   As long as TUNABLE_INT is discouraged, however, switch the type int -> long
>   and adjust accordingly the sysctl stubs.

This doesn't really make sense as far as I can tell - and particularly
for sysctls, using a long can introduce 32-bit compat issues.  I'd
prefer that this remain an int.

What benefit does using a long provide in this case?

-Ed


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