From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755149AbYDEWzh (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753695AbYDEWz2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:55:28 -0400 Received: from flusers.ccur.com ([12.192.68.2]:55558 "EHLO flusers.ccur.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753625AbYDEWz1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:55:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:54:44 -0400 From: Tom Horsley To: Rusty Russell Cc: Marc Pignat , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters Subject: Re: module parameters versus kernel command line Message-ID: <20080405185444.2c433673@tomh> In-Reply-To: <200804050829.00418.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <20080403090053.56f243df@tomh> <200804040909.28983.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200804041345.38482.marc.pignat@hevs.ch> <200804050829.00418.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 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 Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:29:00 +1000 Rusty Russell wrote: > I like this idea, and also have module tools ship with > a 'check-kernel-cmdline' tool which handles the warnings for unusable cmdline > params. Distributions can run this in their init scripts, and we can remove > the warning from the kernel. Or maybe not have the warning at all, after all, even if sillymodule.sillyarg=1 doesn't make sense when I booted, who's to say I can't download the source to sillymodule, compile it, and modprobe it after boot time :-).