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Re: Compile-time versus run-time

To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Compile-time versus run-time
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:16:19 +1000
Cc: "netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER
> (And wouldn't it be nice to be able to get the same functionality
> which module options give us when using a statically linked driver?)

On my todo list for 2.5.  MODULE_PARM will be promoted to
module_name.parm when the object is built in.  insmod foo debug=1 or
boot with foo.debug=1.  It needs a mapping of source to module which is
not easy to get for multi object modules in 2.4, my 2.5 makefile
rewrite will make it easy.



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