Ok, ok, this message is a few months old, but better late than
never, right? (<-- retorical question, no need to actually answer...
;)
Kelly Yancey wrote:
>
> I was working on a module and need to be able to pass parameters to the
> module (preferably without having to compile them in). I noticed that the
> splash module does this (sort of) by having you load the image to display
> and specifying a "tag" for it so that the module can scan for the tag and
> find the image. I need to be able to pass more than a single configuration
> option though. I am considering putting all of the configuration options
> into a single config file, having that loaded into memory by the boot
> loader (much the way the splash module loads it's image) and then when the
> module loads it can scan memory for the configuration information and
> parse it. Is there a better way?
It might not be better, but it's an alternative way. Loader saves
any arguments passed to a module at load time under the tag
MODINFO_ARGS, which can be retrieved (I suppose -- if the kernel
does not junk it somewhere) with preload_search_info().
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