From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mathieu SEGAUD <mathieu.segaud@regala.cx>
Cc: "rae l" <crquan@gmail.com>,
open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC on MODULE SUPPORT] hello, Rusty, Should we provide module information even if the kernel module compiled built-in with bzImage?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:15:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801170915.26040.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxwyhtim.fsf@barad-dur.regala.cx>
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 22:58:09 Mathieu SEGAUD wrote:
> your userspace program is somewhat broken
> the userspace should not expect to find the version number in
> /sys/module, as this is used by the Linux kernel module subsystem. You
> should provide the required information in another way such as a
> /proc/ file (bad) or a /sys file (better, but no module stuff, this
> has no business with it).
Shh! He was going to implement a feature we want!
To be honest, I think his expectations of consistency are correct: if a
version number makes sense, surely it makes sense for builtins as well.
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 10:02 [RFC on MODULE SUPPORT] hello, Rusty, Should we provide module information even if the kernel module compiled built-in with bzImage? rae l
2008-01-16 11:58 ` Mathieu SEGAUD
2008-01-16 22:15 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-01-17 8:29 ` Mathieu SEGAUD
2008-01-16 12:25 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-16 12:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
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