From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756959AbYDDMF5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:05:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752682AbYDDMFq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:05:46 -0400 Received: from mail.hevs.ch ([153.109.23.10]:51555 "EHLO mail.hevs.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751261AbYDDMFq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:05:46 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1218 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:05:45 EDT From: Marc Pignat Organization: HEVs To: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: module parameters versus kernel command line Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:45:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Randy Dunlap , Tom Horsley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080403090053.56f243df@tomh> <20080403091444.827d954a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200804040909.28983.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200804040909.28983.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804041345.38482.marc.pignat@hevs.ch> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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