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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid: Add kernel command line parameter parsing
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:55:08 +0000
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:42:28PM -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> One shortcoming of the driver relationship with the kernel is that there
> is no standard means of having the insmod parameters associated with a
> driver to also be parsed and set by the kernel parameter line.

Actually there is.  In Linux 2.6 every module paramter can also specified
as <modulename>.<parameter> on the kernel command line.

Thus you patch is superflous and should not be applied.