From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 18:38:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F62F37B5BB for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:38:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01045; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004140144.SAA01045@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: "Gary T. Corcoran" , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Setting device options In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:32:00 MDT." <200004132232.QAA48521@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:44:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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.) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message