Re: Checking for incorrect MODULE_PARM

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 11:38:56 EST

Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said:
> modutils 2.3.22 does more rigorous checking of MODULE_PARM entries and
> has already found several cases where MODULE_PARM(x) is used but the
> corresponding variable 'x' is not defined. These are module coding
> bugs that were previously hidden. Run this script to do a quick check
> of all your modules against modutils 2.3.22. Run as any user, does not
> have not be root.
>
> for i in $(/sbin/modprobe -l)
> do
> (echo -e "\n" $i ; /sbin/modinfo -p $i) > /var/tmp/modinfo
> grep warning /var/tmp/modinfo > /dev/null && cat /var/tmp/modinfo
> done

With 2.2.18pre27 on i686 I get:

 /lib/modules/2.2.18/ipv4/ip_masq_user.o
warning: symbol for parameter ports not found
ports int array (min = 1, max = 12)
debug int

Hope this helps a bit. 

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