Re: loader tunables for modules

From: Lara & Harti Brandt (brandt_at_fokus.fraunhofer.de)
Date: 05/29/03

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    Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:58:35 +0200
To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>

    Alexander Langer wrote:

    > How would one give flags to kernel modules?
    >
    > I.e. a kernel module I wrote starts a kernel thread. It should be
    > controlable what kernel thread it starts depending on a sysctl.
    > Of course the sysctl isn't available before the module is loaded.
    >
    > So is there a way to pass a kernel module options to the load-handler,
    > as it is the case for the linux modprobe?
    >
    > For statically drivers in the kernel this can be done by a r/o loader
    > tunable, but I really want to have a module.

    It turns out that kenv is just handy for this. I use it to pass
    debugging information and configuration info to the ATM drivers. And you
    can set kenv entries from the loader and the shell.

    harti

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