From: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module parameters versus kernel command line
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:45:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804041345.38482.marc.pignat@hevs.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804040909.28983.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Friday 04 April 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
...
> The second is that users might be surprised when they take
> the 'usbcore.blinkenlights' line out of their modprobe config file and it
> still applies. Most users use everything-is-a-module distributions.
Why don't do it in user space (let insmod/modprobe parse /proc/cmdline)?
1. Users won't be surprised after looking at the new man pages:)
2. it will work with older kernel
The warning problem is more complicated to fix.
Regards
Marc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-04 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-03 13:00 Tom Horsley
2008-04-03 15:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-03 16:04 ` Tom Horsley
2008-04-03 16:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-03 23:09 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-04 11:45 ` Marc Pignat [this message]
2008-04-04 22:29 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-05 22:54 ` Tom Horsley
2008-04-06 3:08 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-03 16:31 ` Chris Friesen
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