Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:39:45 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rc.d/sysctl fails to parse sysctl.conf Message-ID: <CADLo838RX=BfhWJ6Obxaxk9qBDBJTkHo2ee=Fudeh7s=ucuT8A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSt0mc=7OVNbrKG5dR6oXz6ywsobwFNqeNC_rkkYQMugeA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPS9%2BSt0mc=7OVNbrKG5dR6oXz6ywsobwFNqeNC_rkkYQMugeA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27 February 2013 21:19, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to get my sound working, and long story short: rc.d/sysctl parses
> sysctl.conf wrongly if there are sysctls of the form
>
> mib=val1=val2
>
> which is what you need for sound. For reference I needed/wanted
>
> dev.hdaa.4.nid25_config=as=1,seq=15
> dev.hdaa.4.nid31_config=as=1
>
> I believe the following patch would address the incorrect parsing:
>
> --- /etc/rc.d/sysctl.old 2013-02-27 22:00:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ /etc/rc.d/sysctl 2013-02-27 22:05:24.000000000 +0100
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
> \#*|'')
> ;;
> *)
> - mib=${var%=*}
> + mib=${var%%=*}
> val=${var#*=}
>
> if current_value=`${SYSCTL} -n ${mib}
> 2>/dev/null`; then
I think that this is the right thing to do here.
Chris
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