Re: Checking module parameters

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:26 AM, David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Is there a way to tell what options have been applied to a currently
> loaded kernel module?

/sys/module/[module name]/parameters/ (if i remember correctly)

> I'm trying to force libata to use 1.5Gbps rather than 3Gbps, so I created
> a file /etc/modprobe.d/local containing:
>  options libata force=1.5Gbps
> However my SATA drive gets loaded at 3Gbps.  I'm trying to figure out how
> to debug this so that I can tell whether the option got correctly applied
> to the libata module, and if not, how to force the SATA link to 1.5Gbps.
> Any suggestions or ideas?
>
> (I can't set libata.force=1.5Gbps as a kernel argument because on my
> Fedora kernel, libata is loaded as a module rather than built into the
> kernel.  I can't run "modprobe libata force=1.5Gbps" by hand because
> I've got SATA drives, so the libata module is automatically loaded before
> I get shell access.)

This may not work if libata module is loaded from initrd.