Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265592AbUATRqJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:46:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265620AbUATRqJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:46:09 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:22677 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265592AbUATRqG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:46:06 -0500 To: Rusty Russell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm4 References: <20040115225948.6b994a48.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20040118001217.GE3125@werewolf.able.es.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20040117215535.0e4674b8.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20040118081128.GA3153@werewolf.able.es.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20040118001708.09291455.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20040119224219.65991501.rusty@rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 19 Jan 2004 13:40:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040119224219.65991501.rusty@rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 11 Rusty Russell writes: > Migrating to module_param() is the Right Thing here IMHO, which actually > takes the damn address, The main problem is that module_parm renames the boot time arguments and makes them long and hard to remember. E.g. the new argument needed to make the mouse work on KVMs is mindboogling, could be nearly a Windows registry entry. -Andi - 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/