From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 17:40:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CBE16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C87243D60 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:40:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5148 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2004 20:16:18 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 27 Jan 2004 20:16:18 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0RKGAM2058145; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:16:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Nate Lawson , current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:28:29 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040126213228.D31623@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20040126213228.D31623@root.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401271328.29574.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: getenv_string broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:40:39 -0000 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? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org