From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] param: allow omitting set() methods for truly read-only params
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:19:01 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008112019.03089.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6889404B-C389-4421-BDD7-A042DAAB064A@vmware.com>
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:05:51 pm Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 6:39 PM, "Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:28:44 am Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >> Certain "parameters", such as acpica version and upcoming VMware
> >> Balloon version, are need to be purely read-only.
> >
> > Your followup patch uses this for version, but the version is already
> > in /sys/module/vmware_balloon/version as is standard with modules, no?
>
> That version attribute is not present if the driver is built-in, only
> parameters are visible in both cases.
You know what I'm going to say now then, don't you? :)
Thanks,
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-11 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-10 18:58 [PATCH 1/2] param: allow omitting set() methods for truly read-only params Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-10 18:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] VMware balloon: export module version as module parameter Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-11 1:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] param: allow omitting set() methods for truly read-only params Rusty Russell
2010-08-11 7:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-11 10:49 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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