From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] add kobject to struct module 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:32:47 +0100."
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:04:35 +1000
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In message <20030911003247.V30046@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> you write:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:24:21PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > A while ago we had talked about adding a kobject to struct module.  By
> > doing this we add support for module paramaters and other module info to
> > be exported in sysfs.  So here's a patch that does this that is against
> > 2.6.0-test4 (it applies with some fuzz, sorry.)
> 
> Please excuse my short-sightedness, but I think the following points
> haven't been thought deeply enough:

Well, obviously not publically enough, at least 8(.

To clarify: this is for new-style module params, which explicitly
control their own visibility with the perm arg.

One more reason for module authors to switch 8)

Hope that helps,
Rusty.
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