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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "rae l" <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC on MODULE SUPPORT] hello, Rusty, Should we provide module information even if the kernel module compiled built-in with bzImage?
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:25:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801162325.54326.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91b13c310801160202y833df7bs37cbb5827e875569@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 21:02:22 rae l wrote:
> hello, Rusty:

Hi Denis.

> Should we provide module information under
> /sys/module/<module-name>/... even if the module compiled built-in
> with bzImage?

Absolutely.  Module parameters (should) already do that, for example.

> Or just this module(scsi_transport_iscsi) should be marked with [M] only?
>
> if the former solution is preferred, I would be happy to work on
> MODULE_INFO-like macros improvements with CONFIG_MODULE undefined.

I'd love to see patches.  module_parm showed it's possible, if messy.

Thanks!
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16 10:02 [RFC on MODULE SUPPORT] hello, Rusty, Should we provide module information even if the kernel module compiled built-in with bzImage? rae l
2008-01-16 11:58 ` Mathieu SEGAUD
2008-01-16 22:15   ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-17  8:29     ` Mathieu SEGAUD
2008-01-16 12:25 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-01-16 12:59 ` Sam Ravnborg

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