linux-kernel - Re: RFC - sysctl or module parameters.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:23:43 -0400
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC - sysctl or module parameters.

On 9/1/06, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:02:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> > Thus we could just have a module option, just add module config
> > information to /etc/modprobe.d and run
> >   modprobe --apply-option-to-active-modules
> > at the same time as "sysctl -p" and it would all 'just work'
> > whether the module were compiled in to not.
>
> Ah, you want it after the code is loaded.  That's different.
>
> Would probably work just fine, no objection from me.  Except you would
> have to hack up the module-init-tools package :)
>

This will be pretty hard to implement in general as quite a few module
parameters do not allow changing once set and so you will have to
virtually reload modules while doing your "modprobe --apply.." trick.

-- 
Dmitry
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/