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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Would an "information module" be useful?
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:30:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <523F5361.8040906@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523F4C2A.3050207@nod.at>

> You can do all parsing in user space too.

Is it questionable when a custom prefix of a boot command-line parameter can not
be mapped to a kernel module?


> But I'm sure it will not get merged.

Thanks for your feedback.


> All you need is a dummy module with a few module_param()s.

My ideas went in such a direction.


> drivers/misc/ is a nice place do dump such things. :-)

Is an information sink module (with corresponding data type checks) still an
"ordinary" driver?

Regards,
Markus


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-22 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-22 17:05 Markus Elfring
2013-09-22 18:23 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-09-22 19:51   ` Markus Elfring
2013-09-22 19:59     ` Richard Weinberger
2013-09-22 20:30       ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2013-09-22 20:37         ` Richard Weinberger
2013-09-23  2:38           ` Markus Elfring
2013-09-23  5:47             ` Richard Weinberger

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