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

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Message-Id: <20060901155715.A03285F9DAB@tzec.mtu.ru>
Date:	Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:57:12 +0400
From:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC - sysctl or module parameters.

Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:02:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>> 
>>  - I could make it a module parameter: use_hostnames, and tell
>>    Jo to put
>>      options lockd use_hostnames=yes
>>    in /etc/modprobe.d/lockd  if that is what (s)he wants.
>>    But that won't work if the module is compiled in (will it?).
> 
> Yes it will.  See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for how it works.
> 

I must be blind today but I failed to find anything about this in mentioned
file. Nor do I see how it can possibly work. Could you please elaborate a
bit?

thank you

-andrey

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