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From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] MODULE_PARM_: remove the __deprecated
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 05:44:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A3147F.5030409@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101188636.4245.2.camel@krustophenia.net>

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
>>MODULE_PARM_ might be deprecated.
>>But there are still over 2000 places in the kernel where it's used.
> 
> 
> Changing MODULE_PARM to module_param is not exactly rocket science.  You
> could probably fix them all with a perl script.
> 
> Lee
> 

Not really.  The permissions for the sysfs files, if nothing else, have to be done 
manually.  Plus, check out:

http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2004-November/002559.html

and

http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2004-November/002592.html

for two examples of the kinds of problems that a script would run into.  Not 
rocket science, but it can be tricky.

Jim

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-23 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-22 15:56 [2.6 patch] MODULE_PARM_: remove the __deprecated Adrian Bunk
2004-11-22 20:18 ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-23  5:43 ` Lee Revell
2004-11-23 10:44   ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2004-11-23 20:03     ` Lee Revell

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