Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:28:11 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader.conf ignores setting variable ending in _type Message-ID: <200907220828.11999.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4A6629F8.1090503@cs.duke.edu> References: <4A660E83.6080004@cs.duke.edu> <200907211617.40842.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <4A6629F8.1090503@cs.duke.edu>
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On Tuesday 21 July 2009 4:50:00 pm Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 04:05 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > >> *_type Defines the module's type. If none is given, it > >> defaults to a kld module. > > > > Actually, I wanted to quote this: > > > > loader.conf(5): > > > > WARNING: developers should never use these suffixes for any > > kernel environment variables (tunables) or conflicts > > will result. > > Whoops.. Thanks for pointing that out. Presumably we could relax that a bit and for the reserved tunables ignore tunables with "." in their name. -- John Baldwin
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