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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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sivakumar.subramani@wipro.com wrote this message on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:16 +0530:
> Is there is any other solution to the above problem?
> 
> 
> 
> Actually I am looking for some thing similar to Module loadable
> parameters in the Linux Device Driver.

look at kenv...  It lets you set arbitrary values and access them in
the kernel...  you can use the TUNABLE_* macros provided by sys/kernel.h
to make accessing them easier...

If the variables need to change at run time, look at SYSCTL...

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