Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262273AbUKWKoI (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 05:44:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262464AbUKWKoH (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 05:44:07 -0500 Received: from out004pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.142]:28601 "EHLO out004.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262273AbUKWKn4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 05:43:56 -0500 Message-ID: <41A3147F.5030409@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 05:44:15 -0500 From: Jim Nelson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Adrian Bunk , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] MODULE_PARM_: remove the __deprecated References: <20041122155619.GG19419@stusta.de> <1101188636.4245.2.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1101188636.4245.2.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [209.158.220.243] at Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:43:53 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 31 Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>MODULE_PARM_ might be deprecated. >>But there are still over 2000 places in the kernel where it's used. > > > Changing MODULE_PARM to module_param is not exactly rocket science. You > could probably fix them all with a perl script. > > Lee > Not really. The permissions for the sysfs files, if nothing else, have to be done manually. Plus, check out: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2004-November/002559.html and http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2004-November/002592.html for two examples of the kinds of problems that a script would run into. Not rocket science, but it can be tricky. Jim - 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/