Re: loader.conf ignores setting variable ending in _type

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:28:11 -0400
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 4:50:00 pm Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 04:05 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> 
> >>      *_type	Defines the module's type.  If none is given, it
> >> defaults to a kld module.
> > 
> > Actually, I wanted to quote this:
> > 
> > loader.conf(5):
> > 
> >     WARNING:	developers should never use these suffixes for any
> > 		kernel environment variables (tunables) or conflicts
> > 		will result.
> 
> Whoops..  Thanks for pointing that out.

Presumably we could relax that a bit and for the reserved tunables ignore 
tunables with "." in their name.

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Wed Jul 22 2009 - 11:21:09 UTC

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