Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262314AbUJ0HJO (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:09:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262318AbUJ0HJF (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:09:05 -0400 Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.82]:24450 "HELO smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262319AbUJ0HEr (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:04:47 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Rusty Russell , Dominik Brodowski Subject: Problem with module parameters and sysfs Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:43:54 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: LKML MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410270143.54852.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1081 Lines: 31 Hi, It seems that the following patch http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/diffs/kernel/params.c%401.12?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3d|cset@1.2142 broke module parameters in sysfs for the case when driver is built as a module: [root@core dtor]# ls -la /sys/module/i8042/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 26 19:20 . drwxr-xr-x 54 root root 0 Oct 27 00:28 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 26 19:20 parameters [root@core dtor]# ls -la /sys/module/psmouse/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 27 00:21 . drwxr-xr-x 54 root root 0 Oct 27 00:28 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Oct 27 00:21 refcnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 27 00:21 sections psmouse is built as a module while i8042 is compiled in. -- Dmitry - 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/