Re: Module Ideas: Persistence, PnP, and more...
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
4 Sep 1998 09:22:18 GMT
Followup to: <19980904072434078.AAA264.208@HELGES_PC>
By author: "Helge Hafting" <helge.hafting@daldata.no>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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
>
I thought there was already a way to get "insmod" to keep persistent
data for the module?
-hpa
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