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Date:      Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:16:32 +0700 (ALMST)
From:      Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc:        Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908021804300.39171-100000@lion.butya.kz>
In-Reply-To: <19990801162055.E18888@holly.dyndns.org>

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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Chris Costello wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 01, 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote:
> >
> > Sometimes it would be handy to pass a commandline
> > to a kld, preloaded modules already support
> > arguments. kldload(2) unfortunately has only
> > the pathname.ko argument.
> 
>    Is this really a problem?  Can the administrator not use
> sysctl instead?

	It is not always possible. Some device drivers (both hardware and
software) require an arguments that needed at init/attach time.

	IMO, args should be passed in usual manner via argv[] and
argc with plain get_opt() in libkern.

--
Boris Popov
http://www.butya.kz/~bp/



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