Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756152Ab1ERWDu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 18:03:50 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:35787 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754688Ab1ERWDs (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 18:03:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:03:46 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: David Decotigny Cc: "David S. Miller" , Joe Perches , Szymon Janc , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-net-upstream@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] forcedeth: make module parameters readable in /sys/module Message-ID: <20110518150346.508d6406@nehalam> In-Reply-To: <1305753000-14933-1-git-send-email-decot@google.com> References: <1305753000-14933-1-git-send-email-decot@google.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 641 Lines: 18 On Wed, 18 May 2011 14:09:59 -0700 David Decotigny wrote: > This change allows to publish the values of the module parameters in > /sys/module. > > Although this makes more info for developer, it also means more stuff in sysfs taking more memory and not providing any real value that can't be found by looking at the /etc/modprobe.d for any parameters user might have set. -- 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/