Reading configuration file from driver during load

[Oliver Fromme]

Gireesh wrote:
 > I have a driver which has some parameters hardcoded as of now. It requires
 > values of these parameters to be available during load (during attach
 > function). My requirement is to read these parameters from a configuration
 > file so that we can load driver with different values to parameters without
 > rebuilding driver. 

I think that sysctl or kenv variables are best suited for
that purpose.  There are a lot of examples for that in
existing drivers.

Best regards
   Oliver

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