Re: [2.6 patch] MODULE_PARM_: remove the __deprecated

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 15:11:14 EST


On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 05:44 -0500, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> >>MODULE_PARM_ might be deprecated.
> >>But there are still over 2000 places in the kernel where it's used.
> >
> >
> > Changing MODULE_PARM to module_param is not exactly rocket science. You
> > could probably fix them all with a perl script.
> >
> > Lee
> >
>
> Not really. The permissions for the sysfs files, if nothing else, have to be done
> manually. Plus, check out:
>

Well for every complex example like yours there is one like this:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/08/253

You would have to check the results of course.

Lee


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