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Date:      Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:05:43 -0700
From:      Larry Maloney <larrypatrickmaloney@yahoo.com>
To:        David Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How do I pass configuration parameters to a FreeBSD Device Driver ?
Message-ID:  <4A272BF7.8060604@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <75E1A2A7D185F841A975979B0906BBA65A4D0C658A@AVEXMB1.qlogic.org>
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David Somayajulu wrote:
> Hi All,
> I would appreciate if you could let me know, how I can pass configuration parameters to a device driver, which can be processed during either probe() or attach() ? Is there a way to read them from a conf file of some sort ? Basically, I am interested in setting some tunable parameters during driver initialization, without needing to recompile the driver every time.
>
> thanks
> david Somayajulu
>
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Isn't that what the hints file is for?

Larry

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