From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 20:12:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B44106564A for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6F68FC15 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.88]) by qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Tw341i0031u4NiLACwCQLA; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:24 +0000 Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org ([24.8.232.202]) by omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TwCP1i00b4NgCEG8hwCQru; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:24 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q0UKCMYV019395; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:12:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) From: Ian Lepore To: Ed Maste In-Reply-To: <20120130195721.GA14612@sandvine.com> References: <20120130195721.GA14612@sandvine.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:12:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1327954341.1662.2.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] nextboot(8) arbitrary kernel environment X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:25 -0000 On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 14:57 -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > I have a patch to allow nextboot(8) to set arbitrary kernel environment > variables (not just the kernel dir and kernel_options). The usage becomes: > > Usage: nextboot [-e variable=value] [-f] [-k kernel] [-o options] > nextboot -D > > and the new option is documented as: > > -e variable=value > This option adds the provided variable and value to the ker- > nel environment. The value is quoted when written to the > nextboot configuration. > > The patch also makes -k an option (no longer mandatory). The patch is at > http://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/nextboot.diff . I'll commit it in a few > days if no concerns are raised by review or my testing. > > -Ed Minor nit: -It is not the most thoroughly tested code. +It is not the most throughly tested code. The original spelling is the correct one. -- Ian