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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] add kobject to struct module
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:32:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030911003247.V30046@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030909222421.GA7703@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:24:21PM -0700

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:24:21PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> A while ago we had talked about adding a kobject to struct module.  By
> doing this we add support for module paramaters and other module info to
> be exported in sysfs.  So here's a patch that does this that is against
> 2.6.0-test4 (it applies with some fuzz, sorry.)

Please excuse my short-sightedness, but I think the following points
haven't been thought deeply enough:

- modules which use their parameters on initialisation only once.
  (eg, 3c59x "full_duplex" parameter)

- Also, what about module parameters which modules aren't expecting to
  change beneath themselves? (eg, all the watchdog modules)

- Are we opening the floodgates for another round of races and driver
  updates?

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)	http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/
Linux kernel maintainer of:
  2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
  2.6 Serial core

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-09 22:24 [RFC] add kobject to struct module Greg KH
2003-09-10  0:13 ` Greg KH
2003-09-10  3:31 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-10  4:11   ` Greg KH
2003-09-10  8:07     ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-10 15:26       ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-11  1:13         ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-11  6:26           ` Greg KH
2003-09-11  8:18             ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-11 17:15               ` Greg KH
2004-02-24 23:29           ` Greg KH
2004-03-05 14:34             ` Rusty Russell
2004-05-07 21:28               ` Greg KH
2003-09-10 23:06       ` Greg KH
2003-09-11  2:33         ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-10 23:32 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-09-10 23:45   ` Greg KH
2003-09-11  0:04     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-11  0:21       ` Greg KH
2003-09-11  2:10       ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-11  2:04   ` Rusty Russell

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