Re: RFC - sysctl or module parameters.

["Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On 9/1/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:02:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> > Thus we could just have a module option, just add module config
> > information to /etc/modprobe.d and run
> >   modprobe --apply-option-to-active-modules
> > at the same time as "sysctl -p" and it would all 'just work'
> > whether the module were compiled in to not.
>
> Ah, you want it after the code is loaded.  That's different.
>
> Would probably work just fine, no objection from me.  Except you would
> have to hack up the module-init-tools package :)
>

This will be pretty hard to implement in general as quite a few module
parameters do not allow changing once set and so you will have to
virtually reload modules while doing your "modprobe --apply.." trick.

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Dmitry