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Date:      Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:21:47 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        chuck_tuffli@agilent.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: load time module parameters?
Message-ID:  <20021105.222147.10576668.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021105222958.GH17013@cre85086tuf.rose.agilent.com>
References:  <20021105222958.GH17013@cre85086tuf.rose.agilent.com>

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In message: <20021105222958.GH17013@cre85086tuf.rose.agilent.com>
            Chuck Tuffli <chuck_tuffli@agilent.com> writes:
: I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and am wondering if there is a way to pass
: loadable kernel modules parameters. Under Linux, if a module had
: configurable parameters "a" and "b", you can do something like
: 
:    insmod module.o parameters="a:10 b:5"
: 
: I noticed that some of the drivers grabed information from the
: "environment" using getenv_int(), but I couldn't seem to get this to
: work. Thanks for any thoughts.

You can generally do this with hints and/or kernel environment
variables.  However, you can't easily edit these things once you
boot.

Warner

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