From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 1 21:42:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4278114C05 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 21:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA85605; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:42:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA01145; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:42:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908020442.WAA01145@harmony.village.org> To: Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi Subject: Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules Cc: Chris Costello , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 00:34:26 +0300." References: Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 22:42:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Juha Nurmela writes: : Yes, but (this might be a trademark ;) commonly the arguments would : be used during the sysinit->attach, and at that time sysctl has not yet : been able to change anything. Use of sysctl would require a sidestep : from attach and later continuation with a sysctl_proc. Not a problem, : but inconvenient, IMHO. And it's analogous to executing, they too : can get arguments. I believe that the plan was to make to have more generic stuff so that all drivers woudln't have to parse argv... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message