From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 03:57:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE1316A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 03:57:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7267B43D49 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 03:57:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iB83v9ns058355; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:57:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:57:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: cm c Message-ID: <20041208035709.GF2629@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20041208033858.1403.qmail@web15302.mail.bjs.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041208033858.1403.qmail@web15302.mail.bjs.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to write driver with load time parameter support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 03:57:10 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 08), cm c said: > I've done most of my driver, but I need some load time parameters > to be passed to this driver. Under Linux MODULE_PARM() can do > this job, how can I do this under FBSD? I think kernel tunables (set in /boot/loader.conf at boot time or via /bin/kenv at runtime, readable in-kernel via TUNABLE_* macros) are your best bet here. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com