Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2004 05:44:15 -0500 | From | Jim Nelson <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] MODULE_PARM_: remove the __deprecated |
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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.
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