From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 5 20: 5:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CC737B423; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1645Yi12935; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:05:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1645XL34425; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:05:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:05:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020205.210511.58456203.imp@village.org> To: msmith@hub.freebsd.org Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting sysctl(8)'s in rc.conf From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020205191105.A25310@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20020205191105.A25310@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020205191105.A25310@hub.freebsd.org> Mike Smith writes: : With regard to the original suggestion, I'm not in agreement that : module arguments should be tunables either. Many module arguments : should actually be hints (since they relate to instances of something : supported by a module). Those that are truly generic, or in the case : of a module which only creates a single instance should be passed at : module load time either directly (as with the loader's 'load' command, : via kldload, etc) or indirectly from a configuration file. True. If hints have been MFC'd, then this would be great (I lost track of if they had or not after getting them into MFC shape and having Peter rework them, I never got back to the MFC). I agree that hints are a better mechanism for some things. I guess what I was really saying was "using some mechanism that uses loader variables such as hints or TUNABLE." Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message