On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:08:43 -0800,
David Schleef <ds@stm.lbl.gov> wrote:
>Is there an existing method for a module to discover the request_module()
>parameter that triggered its loading?
Short of running the process chain and extracting the command line to
modprobe, no.
>An alternative that I've considered is to use something similar to the
>following in /etc/conf.modules:
>
> alias char-major-98-2 whatever
> options whatever minor=2
>
>Is there any need for a kernel-wide solution to this, or does nobody
>really care?
Your code has control over the name that is passed to request_module.
I am not keen on kernel code asking for anything other than a single
name, it smacks too much of user policy migrating into the kernel.
Instead you can code /etc/modules.conf like this
alias char-major-98-1 comedi
options char-major-98-1 minor=1
alias char-major-98-2 comedi
options char-major-98-2 minor=2
options comedi major=98 irq=6 io=0x300
Options from the alias source and target are merged together before
calling insmod.
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