Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: module parameters versus kernel command line | Date | Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:08:30 +1000 |
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On Sunday 06 April 2008 08:54:44 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:29:00 +1000 > > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > > I like this idea, and also have module tools ship with > > a 'check-kernel-cmdline' tool which handles the warnings for unusable > > cmdline params. Distributions can run this in their init scripts, and we > > can remove the warning from the kernel. > > Or maybe not have the warning at all, after all, even if > sillymodule.sillyarg=1 doesn't make sense when I booted, who's to say I > can't download the source to sillymodule, compile it, and modprobe it after > boot time :-).
I think it's worse not to have typo protection. Of course, our logs are so noisy they might miss the warning anyway.
Rusty.
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