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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com>,
	Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>,
	Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Subject: Re: Module parameters?
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.

Would be good to provide some standard routine somewhat like getopt()
so that each module won't reimplement it by itself.

-SB


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