loader.conf ignores setting variable ending in _type

Andrew Gallatin gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Tue Jul 21 20:50:08 UTC 2009


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.

Drew


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