From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A file to print the release of loaded compat-wireless stuff
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 17:11:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273007509.12618.1.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x2q43e72e891005041344gb9945d73p3d97e648fd13aa85@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:44 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> It seems there is a reasonable need to find out what version of
> compat-wireless you have running. This will be a dated thing when
> based on linux-next but more importantly it will contain the 2.6.3x.y
> release the release was based on for the stable releases. Any ideas of
> what filesystem API to use for this, I was thinking maybe a simple
> sysfs entry for the compat module. Thoughts, preferences?
We could use a read-only parameter of the compat module. Then the
version would be in /sys/module/compat/parameters/version
Module parameters are visible in sysfs even if the code is compiled into
the kernel.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 20:44 A file to print the release of loaded compat-wireless stuff Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-05-04 21:11 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2010-05-04 21:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-05-17 17:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-05-17 19:10 ` Pavel Roskin
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