Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 23:04:19 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules Message-ID: <19990803150419.796921C1E@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Aug 1999 23:53:23 %2B0900." <37A70263.BD568C3F@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> >
> > Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the
> > arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, on
e
> > device (codadev) and one vfs (coda).
>
> It seems to me that the one who gets the arguments is the one who
> searches for it. :-)
>
> Either that, or the first file in the module. I don't recall right
> now the precise structure of this in memory.
The Plan(TM) was that things will be able to query the resource database.
What I've had in mind for a while is to take the argument strings etc and
merge them into the tables, but that's a rather device centric view. They
would be installable either via preload args, kldload args and/or settable
via some userland tool (sysctl would be ideal, but it's too limited in
it's design - it can't have arbitary strings, everything has to translate
to an OID first).
Cheers,
-Peter
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