From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens)
Cc: Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch (Werner Almesberger),
david_luyer@pacific.net.au (David Luyer),
alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: "Pass module parameters" to built-in drivers
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:55:23 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101222155.f0MLtNe01781@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5766.980181036@ocs3.ocs-net> from "Keith Owens" at Jan 23, 2001 03:30:36 AM
Keith Owens writes:
> It is part of my total Makefile rewrite for 2.5. A clean
> implementation of module parameters mapping to setup code requires the
> mapping of a source file to the module it is linked into. That
> information is difficult to extract with the current Makefile system,
> my rewrite makes it easy.
Hmm, don't we already have all that __setup() stuff laying around? Ok,
it might not be built into the .o for modules, but it could be. Could
we not do something along the lines of:
1. User passes parameters on the kernel command line.
2. modprobe reads the kernel command line and sorts out those that
correspond to the __setup() stuff in the module being loaded.
3. modprobe combines in any extra settings from /etc/modules.conf
IIRC, this would satisfy the original posters intentions, presumably
without too much hastle?
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http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-23 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-21 4:54 PATCH: "Pass module parameters" to built-in drivers David Luyer
2001-01-21 5:09 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-22 15:56 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-22 16:30 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-22 18:08 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-22 21:55 ` Russell King [this message]
2001-01-23 6:37 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-23 9:18 ` Richard Guenther
2001-01-24 13:32 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-01-24 20:57 ` Keith Owens
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