From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, ak@muc.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow multiple dummy devices again
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 07:04:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031128070437.A5765@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031127174012.0bab844e.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:40:12PM -0800
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:40:12PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On 27 Nov 2003 20:33:22 -0500
> jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 20:13, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > Even though we generally frown upon module options for networking
> > > devices, I think it's wholly appropriate for this case.
> >
> > Why not make it also a boot option?
>
> They're one in the same these days.
>
> If the driver is built as a module, you pass the option in with
> at modload time, else you pass it in on the kernel command line.
You'd have to use module_param for that, but it appears the driver uses
the deprectated MODULE_PARAM..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-28 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-28 0:44 [PATCH] Allow multiple dummy devices again Andi Kleen
2003-11-28 1:13 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-28 1:33 ` jamal
2003-11-28 1:40 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-28 7:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-11-28 8:30 ` David S. Miller
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