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From: Roberto Nibali <ratz@tac.ch>
To: Alexandros Fragkiadakis <A.Fragiadakis@lboro.ac.uk>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: About loadable kernel modules
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 18:17:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA1B391.9090103@tac.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001001c26a3e$1900bab0$c5327d9e@alex

Hello,

>  I also have a user process thas loads and unloads this loadable kernel 
> module using the commands:
> system("insmod kernel_module.o")
> system("rmmod kernel_module") respectively.

Ok.

>  I'd like to pass parameters to the loadable module, hence having a more 
> flexible user process.
>   So, instead of using the command /system("insmod kernel_module.o"),/
> i'd like to use: /system("insmod kernel_module.o <param1> 
> <param2>...<param n>")/
> , hence passing command line parameters to my loadable module.
>  
> Do you know if it is possible?

You definitely want the know about the MODULE_PARM() macro. Get more information 
by reading an existing module like for example:

grep ^MODULE_ /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c

Best regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-07 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-02 18:04 About loadable kernel modules Alexandros Fragkiadakis
2002-10-07 16:17 ` Roberto Nibali [this message]
2002-10-08  1:06 ` Joel Newkirk

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