Re: [PATCH 1/2] param: allow omitting set() methods for truly read-only params

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Wed Aug 11 2010 - 06:49:15 EST


On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:05:51 pm Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 6:39 PM, "Rusty Russell" <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:28:44 am Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >> Certain "parameters", such as acpica version and upcoming VMware
> >> Balloon version, are need to be purely read-only.
> >
> > Your followup patch uses this for version, but the version is already
> > in /sys/module/vmware_balloon/version as is standard with modules, no?
>
> That version attribute is not present if the driver is built-in, only
> parameters are visible in both cases.

You know what I'm going to say now then, don't you? :)

Thanks,
Rusty.
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