There is a misprint in both 10.3 release notes and commit message, about the new vt sysctl key. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/relnotes.html#kernel https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=287782 the key to enable/disable bell in vt is not bell_enable but enable_bell into kern.vt 's OIDs. Moreover, there is still nothing about this in vt(4) man page.
Created attachment 169298 [details] new tunable enable_bell To update the man page, the few lines: +.It Va kern.vt.enable_bell +Enable terminal bell. may be enough.
Copying in the two people involved in the original commit: Tiwei Bie <btw@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@freebsd.org>
(In reply to david.marec from comment #0) Yes, the key is enable_bell.
(In reply to david.marec from comment #1) I don't think it's a good idea to put these lines to the 'KEYBOARD SYSCTL TUNABLES' section. Maybe a new section should be added?
A commit references this bug: Author: wblock Date: Mon Apr 18 02:36:49 UTC 2016 New revision: 298176 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/298176 Log: Add the kern.vt.enable_bell sysctl, which was not documented previously. Minor additional punctuation and wording changes. PR: 208785 Submitted by: david.marec@davenulle.org MFC after: 1 week Changes: head/share/man/man4/vt.4
I have updated the man page.
Is the MFC done, so we can close this PR?
The MFC is done, but the release notes are re@ territory and I did not change them.
Assign to maintainer of release notes. This may be OBE by now, though.
Closing as OBE, there is no point in updating release notes now.