Re: [PATCH] final support for MODULE_PARAM as kernel commandline

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:20:42 +0100 (BST)

> However... I think we can't just grab the module parameter name and
> use that as a boot parameter name: each module currently has its own
> "namespace" for parameters, and you're going to get tons of conflicts
> this way. For instance, there are tons of things like:

Agreed

> for both module parameters and boot parameters, or, have a way of
> specifying a prefix just for boot parameters, like:
>
> __setup(MODULE_PREFIX #var "=", modparm##var##_setup);

I think there are two obvious things here. You got one of them bang on the
head. The other is to make SETUP_PARM() both and MODULE_PARM() module only
I think ?

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