Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:45:12 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getenv_string broken? Message-ID: <200401281245.12012.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040127222750.P77555@root.org> References: <20040126213228.D31623@root.org> <200401271328.29574.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040127222750.P77555@root.org>
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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 01:28 am, Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 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
How did you dump this? If os_name isn't in the list, then that is going to be
a problem of course. :) That would indicate that a bug in the loader though
and not in getenv_string().
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