Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:38:37 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Module parameters? Message-ID: <3453.963351517@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:03:55 EDT." <396B8BBB.4AA1867D@lucent.com>
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In message <396B8BBB.4AA1867D@lucent.com>, "Gary T. Corcoran" writes: >No, I know it's not that easy. We need to be able to do things >like have "TransmissionMode=4" on the kldload command line, and >have that parse the decimal value 4, and then go into the module >and set the value of the TransmissionMode variable to actually be >4 immediately after loading the module into memory, before any of >its subroutines are called. This is what the Linux module loader >allows, and it's extremely useful... I have a much simpler idea: The loader needs to pass an argc+argv to the modules "configure" routine, and the module can do whatever it damn pleases with the passed arguments. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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