From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932165AbWIAP5U (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:57:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932152AbWIAP5U (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:57:20 -0400 Received: from tzec.mtu.ru ([195.34.34.228]:26897 "EHLO tzec.mtu.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932166AbWIAP5S (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:57:18 -0400 From: Andrey Borzenkov Subject: Re: RFC - sysctl or module parameters. To: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:57:12 +0400 References: <17655.38092.888976.846697@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060901101001.GA13912@kroah.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: <20060901155715.A03285F9DAB@tzec.mtu.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:02:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: >> >> - I could make it a module parameter: use_hostnames, and tell >> Jo to put >> options lockd use_hostnames=yes >> in /etc/modprobe.d/lockd if that is what (s)he wants. >> But that won't work if the module is compiled in (will it?). > > Yes it will. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for how it works. > I must be blind today but I failed to find anything about this in mentioned file. Nor do I see how it can possibly work. Could you please elaborate a bit? thank you -andrey