Re: [UPDATED PATCH 1/2] export module parameters in sysfs for modules _and_ built-in code

[Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>]

I finally tried this out, nice.

Is someone pushing it? I don't see it in 2.6.8-rc4-mm1.

-- Patrick Mansfield

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:47:10PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:

> Create a new /sys top-level directory named "parameters", and make all
> to-be-sysfs-exported module parameters available as attributes to kobjects.
> Currently, only module parameters in _modules_ are exported in /sys/modules/,
> while those of "modules" built into the kernel can be set by the kernel command 
> line, but not read or set via sysfs.
> 
> For modules, a symlink
> 
> brodo@mondschein param $ ls -l /sys/module/ehci_hcd/ | grep param
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 brodo brodo    0  1. Aug 17:50 parameters -> ../../parameters/ehci_hcd
> 
> is added. Removal of double module parameters export for modules is sent in a second
> patch, so the diffstat
> 
>  include/linux/module.h      |    2
>  include/linux/moduleparam.h |   14 +
>  kernel/module.c             |   16 +
>  kernel/params.c             |  368 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> looks worse than it is.
> 
> Much of this work is based on the current code for modules only to be found in
> linux/kernel/module.c; many thanks to Rusty Russell for his code and his
> feedback!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>