On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:26:00AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:

> The short version is that I want to do some driver parameter tweaking 
> for testing of a new hardware device.  Traditionally we set parameters 
> in /etc/system (for linux users, this is the rough equivalent of the 
> /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/ files) to adjust how the system 
> device drivers configure itself, away from default parameters.

Do you mean /etc/system (which exists) or driver.conf (which also
exists)?

> It it possible to create a /usbkey/system or /usbkey/etc/system file or 
> its operational equivalent which will provide this functionality? 

No, but see
http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2013/12/28/anonymous-tracing-on-smartos/
which provides a template for overriding platform contents of files that
are read by the kernel *before* vfs_mountroot().  That mechanism should
give you what you're looking for.


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