From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm4
Date: 19 Jan 2004 13:40:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73r7xwglgn.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119224219.65991501.rusty@rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> Migrating to module_param() is the Right Thing here IMHO, which actually
> takes the damn address,
The main problem is that module_parm renames the boot time arguments and
makes them long and hard to remember. E.g. the new argument needed to
make the mouse work on KVMs is mindboogling, could be nearly a Windows
registry entry.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 17:46 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20040119224219.65991501.rusty@rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-01-19 12:40 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-01-21 4:06 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Rusty Russell
2004-01-21 4:56 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-21 8:40 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-21 12:27 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 12:34 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-21 12:46 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 13:13 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-22 1:31 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Rusty Russell
2004-01-21 12:53 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-21 12:23 ` mouse configuration in 2.6.1 Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 12:31 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-01-21 12:42 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 12:53 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-01-21 13:02 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 13:06 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-01-21 13:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-21 12:32 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-22 1:14 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-17 13:13 2.6.1-mm4 Thomas Molina
2004-01-17 18:14 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Hugh Dickins
2004-01-17 18:52 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-01-19 7:16 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Rusty Russell
2004-01-19 11:29 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Rusty Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-16 6:59 2.6.1-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-01-16 9:34 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-21 18:46 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-21 19:20 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-11 22:22 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-12 5:52 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-12 7:30 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-12 8:46 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-12 13:15 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-12 16:11 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-16 13:45 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Ed Tomlinson
2004-01-16 17:32 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Thomas Schlichter
2004-01-16 14:49 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Fabian Fenaut
[not found] ` <200401161449.i0GEnoAv026627@fire-1.osdl.org>
2004-01-16 17:03 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-01-16 18:11 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Fabian Fenaut
2004-01-16 17:37 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Thomas Schlichter
2004-01-16 17:58 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Thomas Schlichter
2004-01-17 1:31 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Greg Fitzgerald
2004-01-17 1:40 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Mike Fedyk
2004-01-17 2:07 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Greg Fitzgerald
2004-01-17 2:24 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Mike Fedyk
2004-01-17 4:05 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-17 4:22 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Greg Fitzgerald
2004-01-17 2:22 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Adrian Bunk
2004-01-18 0:12 ` 2.6.1-mm4 J.A. Magallon
2004-01-18 5:55 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-01-18 8:11 ` 2.6.1-mm4 J.A. Magallon
2004-01-18 8:17 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-01-19 11:42 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Rusty Russell
2004-01-19 11:46 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2004-01-20 0:26 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Thomas Molina
2004-01-20 0:57 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andrew Morton
2004-01-20 2:13 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Thomas Molina
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