Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-37,: Re: [PATCH] final support for MODULE_PARAM as kernel commandline

# Re: [PATCH] final support for MODULE_PARAM as kernel commandline

David Hinds (dhinds@zen.stanford.edu)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:22:17 -0700

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On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:20:42AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > for both module parameters and boot parameters, or, have a way of
> > specifying a prefix just for boot parameters, like:
> >
> > __setup(MODULE_PREFIX #var "=", modparm##var##_setup);
>
> I think there are two obvious things here. You got one of them bang on the
> head. The other is to make SETUP_PARM() both and MODULE_PARM() module only
> I think ?

What kinds of things did you have in mind for module-only parameters?
Or would this mainly be for things that already have their own setup
parameter parsing code?

-- Dave

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