Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 01:25:36 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi, Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules Message-ID: <37A5C680.3CA1DBD2@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908020021290.9676-100000@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org> <199908020442.WAA01145@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908020021290.9676-100000@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org> Juha Nurmela writes: > : Yes, but (this might be a trademark ;) commonly the arguments would > : be used during the sysinit->attach, and at that time sysctl has not yet > : been able to change anything. Use of sysctl would require a sidestep > : from attach and later continuation with a sysctl_proc. Not a problem, > : but inconvenient, IMHO. And it's analogous to executing, they too > : can get arguments. > > I believe that the plan was to make to have more generic stuff so that > all drivers woudln't have to parse argv... Modules are not just drivers. Forget about drivers, and try again. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org - Jordan, God, what's the difference? - God doesn't belong to the -core. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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