Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:58:35 +0200 From: Lara & Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader tunables for modules Message-ID: <3ED6201B.7010804@fokus.fhg.de> References: <20030529132428.GA66652@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
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Alexander Langer wrote: > How would one give flags to kernel modules? > > I.e. a kernel module I wrote starts a kernel thread. It should be > controlable what kernel thread it starts depending on a sysctl. > Of course the sysctl isn't available before the module is loaded. > > So is there a way to pass a kernel module options to the load-handler, > as it is the case for the linux modprobe? > > For statically drivers in the kernel this can be done by a r/o loader > tunable, but I really want to have a module. It turns out that kenv is just handy for this. I use it to pass debugging information and configuration info to the ATM drivers. And you can set kenv entries from the loader and the shell. hartihome | help
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