Re: [PATCH -mm 8/9] netconsole: Update documentation for dynamicreconfigurability

[Satyam Sharma]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> [...]
> BTW I did some testing myself, and have found another *embarrassing* bug:
> if netconsole is loaded _without_ specifying any "netconsole=" parameter,
> module is still kept loaded, but on unloading configfs_unregister_...()
> obviously panics! :-) This should've been found by me earlier, just that
> I never tested without specifying the parameter to modprobe :-(

Basically that check upfront in init_netconsole() checking if the boot/
module param was provided now becomes unnecessary -- with dynamic
reconfigurability, a user might plausibly want to load netconsole without
specifying any params, but add targets later ...

Satyam
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