Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933830Ab3CTDNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:13:47 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:47604 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933340Ab3CTDNp (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:13:45 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andy Lutomirski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , Lucas De Marchi Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow optional module parameters In-Reply-To: <1363722051.3491.29.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <87ehfhtftn.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87sj3tsawh.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87hak8qfu5.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <1363722051.3491.29.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:01:01 +1030 Message-ID: <87zjxypztm.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 23 Ben Hutchings writes: > This should also go to stable, so the downgrading issue doesn't continue > to bite people. Andy was complaining about experimental params going away: I haven't heard a single complaint about the downgrading issue. I think it's a nice to have, which is why I mentioned it. I also CC'd the two maintainers most likely to know if it *is* a current problem. And note that this code has been this way for over ten years! No bug report, no cc:stable. What if people were relying on detecting module parameters by the load failing? I'd rather find out when they upgrade to a new kernel instead of poisoning the old ones, too. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/