Re: Module Ideas: Persistence, PnP, and more...

Helge Hafting (helge.hafting@daldata.no)
Fri, 04 Sep 1998 09:26:15 +0100


In <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.980903221259.14634A-100000@csa>, on 09/03/98
at 11:34 PM, Alon Ziv <alonz@cs.Technion.AC.IL> said:

>1. Persistence

>One of the major pitfalls with current module support is that user
>settings are not saved between uses of a module. This includes both
>`initialization' settings (set using `parm=xxx' at insmod time) and
>runtime-tunable settings (such as sound volume).

I see a possible problems here. What if I run
a module with 'parm=xxx', removes it, and then want to run it witout xxx?
Will I have to remember that I used 'xxx' last time and use
'parm=no_xxx'? I may even not know that some previous user used the
module with 'parm=xxx'
This could get messy if 'xxx' is a powerful parameter.

Helge Hafting

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