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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:40:17 -0400
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "Gary T. Corcoran" <gcorcoran@lucent.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Module parameters?
Message-ID:  <396BCC81.DA54BE70@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <3453.963351517@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message <396B8BBB.4AA1867D@lucent.com>, "Gary T. Corcoran" writes:
> 
> >No, I know it's not that easy.  We need to be able to do things
> >like have "TransmissionMode=4" on the kldload command line, and
> >have that parse the decimal value 4, and then go into the module
> 
> I have a much simpler idea:
> 
> The loader needs to pass an argc+argv to the modules "configure"
> routine, and the module can do whatever it damn pleases with
> the passed arguments.

Would be good to provide some standard routine somewhat like getopt()
so that each module won't reimplement it by itself.

-SB


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