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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:44:32 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Setting device options 
Message-ID:  <200004140144.SAA01045@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:32:00 MDT." <200004132232.QAA48521@harmony.village.org> 

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> Two options.
> 
> Once is that you can get hints, the other is that you can get
> environment variables.  The third is to have sysctls, but those can't
> be set until after the driver has finished loading.  Which one do you
> want me to talk about?

You forgot module arguments, which, along with kernel environment 
variables, can only be set by the loader.

(This is a bug; kldload should know how to set module arguments.)

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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