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It was nay'ed before committing on the grounds that this is not the way to do it, and has been decided as such several times in the past. There is not point in loading gobs of ascii into the kernel when the only use of that ascii is presentation to the user. Next thing we'd be adding all section 4 man pages to the loaded kernel as well. The argument about KLD's is bogus, klds can store a file in /usr/share/doc/sysctl/dev/foo/thisvar.txt with a description and sysctl or other facilities can pick it up there. Proper documentation will take several K worth of text for many sysctl variables, we don't want that in the kernel under any circumstances. I will welcome any well thought out attempt at improving the situation wrt. sysctl documentation, but this wasn't it.
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