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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Core kernel parameters and /sys/parameters?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:25:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080814222522.GO30057@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807311359.02561.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:59:02PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
>    Was looking at implementing "core_param" for things like "initcall_debug"
> (ie. params with no prefix), and wanted to put them in sysfs of course.  I
> hacked in a new "kernel" dir, but /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ is a bit
> of an odd place for it to end up in.
> 
>    I noticed this comment in params.c:
> 
>  * /sys/module/[mod->name]/parameters to /sys/parameters/[mod->name]/
> 
> I like the idea of /sys/parameters/ much better (perhaps even with core
> parameters at the top level).  Is this obsolete?  Planned?

Did I write that comment?  I sure don't remember it, sorry :)

I don't have any plans on changing this, but I do know people use the
/sys/module/MODULE_NAME/parameters interface today, why change it?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-14 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31  3:59 Core kernel parameters and /sys/parameters? Rusty Russell
2008-08-14 22:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-08-14 23:32   ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-15  2:16     ` Marcel Holtmann

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