Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:29:25 -0400 From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: loader.conf ignores setting variable ending in _type Message-ID: <4A671435.2060005@cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <200907220828.11999.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4A660E83.6080004@cs.duke.edu> <200907211617.40842.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <4A6629F8.1090503@cs.duke.edu> <200907220828.11999.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 4:50:00 pm Andrew Gallatin wrote: >> Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>> On Tuesday 21 July 2009 04:05 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>>> *_type Defines the module's type. If none is given, it >>>> defaults to a kld module. >>> Actually, I wanted to quote this: >>> >>> loader.conf(5): >>> >>> WARNING: developers should never use these suffixes for any >>> kernel environment variables (tunables) or conflicts >>> will result. >> Whoops.. Thanks for pointing that out. > > Presumably we could relax that a bit and for the reserved tunables ignore > tunables with "." in their name. > That would be nice. But it is not a big deal to fix it in the mxge driver by changing the tunable name (already done, actually). Drew
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