Re: 2.6.1-mm4

[Andi Kleen]

Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Migrating to module_param() is the Right Thing here IMHO, which actually
> takes the damn address,

The main problem is that module_parm renames the boot time arguments and
makes them long and hard to remember. E.g. the new argument needed to
make the mouse work on KVMs is mindboogling, could be nearly a Windows
registry entry.

-Andi
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