Gary T. Corcoran writes:
> > > : I was wondering if you (or anyone on this list) has had time
> > > : to add module parameters to kldload? (and before anyone suggests
> > > : it, sorry, but I am barely able to squeeze out enough time to
> > > : even work on this unofficial driver, I can't work on kldload)
> > >
> > > You can use the hint mechanism that we've developed for other things.
> >
> > Another possibility is the netgraph binary <-> ASCII conversion stuff:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netgraph/ng_parse.h?rev=1.3
>
> Are you suggesting that these routines could be used to
> easily add parameters to kldload? (hint, hint) <grin>
:-)
> No, I know it's not that easy. We need to be able to do things
> like have "TransmissionMode=4" on the kldload command line, and
> have that parse the decimal value 4, and then go into the module
> and set the value of the TransmissionMode variable to actually be
> 4 immediately after loading the module into memory, before any of
> its subroutines are called. This is what the Linux module loader
> allows, and it's extremely useful...
This is the kind of thing ng_parse.c can do.
In fact kldload could just pass the parameters as a single, opaque
ASCII string and the kernel (the KLD, actually) can decode it
back into a binary C structure using the ng_parse routines.
-Archie
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