From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758665AbYDCQEh (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:04:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756589AbYDCQE3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:04:29 -0400 Received: from vpnflf.ccur.com ([12.192.68.2]:30457 "EHLO flusers.ccur.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756247AbYDCQE2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:04:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:04:25 -0400 From: Tom Horsley To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: module parameters versus kernel command line Message-ID: <20080403120425.232cb1ba@tomh> In-Reply-To: <20080403083953.42ea3f1d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> References: <20080403090053.56f243df@tomh> <20080403083953.42ea3f1d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:39:53 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > Module parameters for modules that are built into the kernel image > are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus > '.' plus parameter name, with '=' and value if appropriate, such as: > > usbcore.blinkenlights=1 I know that part, I'm just wondering if it would be nice to have even dynamically loaded modules notice the kernel option so that the "usbcore" module would see the "blinkenlights=1" parameter from the kernel boot options when dynamically loaded? That way, you wouldn't have to stop and figure out if a module was static or dynamic to decide if you need to edit the grub boot line or the modprobe.conf file.