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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "rae l" <crquan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC on MODULE SUPPORT] hello, Rusty, Should we provide module information even if the kernel module compiled built-in with bzImage?
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:25:54 +1100
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On Wednesday 16 January 2008 21:02:22 rae l wrote:
> hello, Rusty:

Hi Denis.

> Should we provide module information under
> /sys/module/<module-name>/... even if the module compiled built-in
> with bzImage?

Absolutely.  Module parameters (should) already do that, for example.

> Or just this module(scsi_transport_iscsi) should be marked with [M] only?
>
> if the former solution is preferred, I would be happy to work on
> MODULE_INFO-like macros improvements with CONFIG_MODULE undefined.

I'd love to see patches.  module_parm showed it's possible, if messy.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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