In the last episode (Nov 05), Chuck Tuffli said:
> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and am wondering if there is a way to pass
> loadable kernel modules parameters. Under Linux, if a module had
> configurable parameters "a" and "b", you can do something like
>
> insmod module.o parameters="a:10 b:5"
>
> I noticed that some of the drivers grabed information from the
> "environment" using getenv_int(), but I couldn't seem to get this to
> work. Thanks for any thoughts.
You can use /usr/bin/kenv to set kernel env variables, or you can have
your module register a dynamic sysctl variable that the user can tweak
after the module has been loaded. I've used the sysctl method myself
and it works fine.
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