Re: fun or real: proc interface for module handling?

From: Stuart Longland (stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 00:55:45 EST


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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:34:01PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:

| Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org> writes:
| > Modul options could be passed my
| > echo "psmouse_noext=1" > /proc/mods/psmouse/options
| > which would also make it possible to change module options while
running..
|
| How would options be passed when loading? Some modules require that
| to load properly.

Possibility, why not just have a file, /proc/mods/initial, that you
write the initial kernel module options to, e.g.

# echo "ne2000 io=0x300 irq=11" > /proc/mods/initial

Then you load the module using:

# mkdir /proc/mods/ne2000/

although you could skip this necessity and just load the module when
someone writes to /proc/mods/initial.

Just a thought.

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