Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 22:42:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Juha.Nurmela@quicknet.inet.fi Cc: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules Message-ID: <199908020442.WAA01145@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 00:34:26 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908020021290.9676-100000@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908020021290.9676-100000@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908020021290.9676-100000@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org> 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... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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