linux-kernel - Re: module parameters versus kernel command line

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Message-Id: <200804061308.30921.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:08:30 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@...r.com>
Cc:	Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@...s.ch>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
Subject: Re: module parameters versus kernel command line

On Sunday 06 April 2008 08:54:44 Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:29:00 +1000
>
> Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > I like this idea, and also have module tools ship with
> > a 'check-kernel-cmdline' tool which handles the warnings for unusable
> > cmdline params.  Distributions can run this in their init scripts, and we
> > can remove the warning from the kernel.
>
> Or maybe not have the warning at all, after all, even if
> sillymodule.sillyarg=1 doesn't make sense when I booted, who's to say I
> can't download the source to sillymodule, compile it, and modprobe it after
> boot time :-).

I think it's worse not to have typo protection.  Of course, our logs are so 
noisy they might miss the warning anyway.

Rusty.
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