On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > You know, snmpd is not exactly the new thing... Why push the ugly
> > interface into the kernel? Besides, if you want numbers - fine, just
> > create your "numeric" tree and populate it with links to your heart's
> > pleasure. Problem solved.
> >
>
> Because everyone uses SNMP, and it would be a boon to have the numbers
> centrally assigned. If people have to roll their own, the MIBs will be
> incompatible, which will be bad for everyone.
There is one problem with that (aside of the fact that SNMP is
misdesigned) - you are pushing the maintainance of this repository into
the kernel. Good luck - and Richard will be the first to become, erm,
unhappy, judging by his reaction on another such repository. Device
numbers, that is...
If there is a standard space for sysctls - fine, put it into the
separate package that will happily live in userland and map the
SNMP-mandated numbers to names. Everyone is happy - kernel doesn't have to
care about this crap and people who _do_ care are ones who maintain the
userland side of things. They are natural candidates for maintaining this
repository, not the kernel team.
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