From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261550AbUKWUHo (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:07:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261525AbUKWUE7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:04:59 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:45531 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261522AbUKWUEB (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:04:01 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] MODULE_PARM_: remove the __deprecated From: Lee Revell To: Jim Nelson Cc: Adrian Bunk , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <41A3147F.5030409@verizon.net> References: <20041122155619.GG19419@stusta.de> <1101188636.4245.2.camel@krustophenia.net> <41A3147F.5030409@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:03:58 -0500 Message-Id: <1101240239.6358.23.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 05:44 -0500, Jim Nelson wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >>MODULE_PARM_ might be deprecated. > >>But there are still over 2000 places in the kernel where it's used. > > > > > > Changing MODULE_PARM to module_param is not exactly rocket science. You > > could probably fix them all with a perl script. > > > > Lee > > > > Not really. The permissions for the sysfs files, if nothing else, have to be done > manually. Plus, check out: > Well for every complex example like yours there is one like this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/08/253 You would have to check the results of course. Lee