D54763 implements a workaround for ipfw KBI incompatibility introduced in D46183. It works fine for OS upgrades from 14.4 to 15.x but does not help with running an 14.4 jail with 15.0 kernel as jail initialization overwrites OS version with an older one.
This differential introduces a new sysctl node to detect ipfw KBI version reliably.
Compatibility detection in /sbin/ipfw should rely on it.
A new sysctl node is chosen to ease detection: no open() calls for socket are needed.