From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 2 9:34:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BD515134 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id BAA14176; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 01:33:56 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37A5C680.3CA1DBD2@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 01:25:36 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi, Chris Costello , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules References: <199908020442.WAA01145@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message Juha Nurmela writes: > : Yes, but (this might be a trademark ;) commonly the arguments would > : be used during the sysinit->attach, and at that time sysctl has not yet > : been able to change anything. Use of sysctl would require a sidestep > : from attach and later continuation with a sysctl_proc. Not a problem, > : but inconvenient, IMHO. And it's analogous to executing, they too > : can get arguments. > > I believe that the plan was to make to have more generic stuff so that > all drivers woudln't have to parse argv... Modules are not just drivers. Forget about drivers, and try again. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org - Jordan, God, what's the difference? - God doesn't belong to the -core. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message