linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] param: make /sys/module/*/paramaters optional

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Date:	Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:02:24 -0700
From:	David Decotigny <david.decotigny@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
	Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] param: make /sys/module/*/paramaters optional

Thank you all for your feedback.

FYI, this patch was meant to be an answer to a negative feedback I
received when I proposed changing a few module_param(... perm=S_IRUGO)
in forcedeth driver. But I agree the "price to pay" is very low.

Should I drop this patch?

--
David Decotigny



On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0700, David Decotigny wrote:
>> From: David Decotigny <decot@...gle.com>
>>
>> With this patch, we allow systems that don't want to pay the price for
>> /sys/module/*/paramaters to be compiled without that feature.
>
> The "price"?  What kind of price is it?  How much memory is really saved
> here?
>
> greg k-h
>
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