Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933419Ab3GCVDt (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:03:49 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50413 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933054Ab3GCVDr (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:03:47 -0400 Message-ID: <51D491AD.7050008@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:03:41 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Masters Cc: Rusty Russell , Lucas De Marchi , Andy Lutomirski , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ben Hutchings , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow optional module parameters References: <87ehfhtftn.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87sj3tsawh.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87hak8qfu5.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87sj3qpwdz.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87a9m6sri3.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <9F26321B-7088-4D16-80D5-72EB388F8E49@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <9F26321B-7088-4D16-80D5-72EB388F8E49@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 22 Dne 1.7.2013 18:33, Jonathan Masters napsal(a): > One caveat. Sometimes we have manufactured parameters intentionally > to cause a module to fail. We should standardize that piece. You have: blacklist foo to prevent udev from loading a module and install foo /bin/true to prevent modprobe from loading the module at all. What is the motivation for inventing a third way, through adding invalid parameters? Thanks, Michal -- 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/