Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:28:29 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getenv_string broken? Message-ID: <200401271328.29574.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040126213228.D31623@root.org> References: <20040126213228.D31623@root.org>
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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 12:42 am, Nate Lawson wrote:
> I have a getenv_string() that is never being evaluated. I declared it as
> follows:
>
> static char acpi_os_name[128];
> TUNABLE_STR("hw.acpi.os_name", acpi_os_name, sizeof(acpi_os_name));
>
> The contents of acpi_os_name are never filled in from the variable I
> declared in /boot/loader.conf. Just to be sure, I made a loop that prints
> out the contents of kenvp. It does not have hw.acpi.os_name.
>
> Here is a snippet of the kenvp array, right where my tunable should be
> (os2 is from a test below):
>
> name: hint.vt.0.disabled=1
> name: hw.acpi.os2=8
> name: hw.acpi.reset_video=0
> name: hw.acpi.verbose=1
> name: hw.cbb.start_memory=0xc0203000
>
> For another test, I declared a tunable int right below the string, in the
> same source file. It gets evaluated and assigned.
>
> static int acpi_os2 = 2;
> TUNABLE_INT("hw.acpi.os2", &acpi_os2);
What is in your /boot/loader.conf?
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