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Date:      Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:16:35 +0200
From:      Dirk GOUDERS <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Sergey Uvarov <uvarovsl@mail.pnpi.spb.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: preferable way to control kernel module 
Message-ID:  <200508111616.j7BGGZWG055221@sora.hank.home>
In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> of "Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:22:38 EDT." <200508111122.39336.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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 > > Thank you for advise. But I wonder: what is wrong with syscall approach
 > > (via SYSCALL_MODULE macro)?
 > 
 > I just haven't done one personally.  I think there's also a lot more potenti
 > al 
 > for collisions when trying to pick a syscall number versus picking a string 
 > name for a sysctl or /dev entry.

Shouldn't that be no problem if he sets the offset parameter to
SYSCALL_MODULE to NO_SYSCALL (get the next free offset)?

Dirk



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