From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A file to print the release of loaded compat-wireless stuff
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:51:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <z2o43e72e891005041451qa4ea338bu5a20171a82f13471@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273007509.12618.1.camel@mj>
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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.
Neat trick thanks for the tip, will give that a shot.
Luis
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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
2010-05-04 21:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2010-05-17 17:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-05-17 19:10 ` Pavel Roskin
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