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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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