On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:54 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> It is often advantageous to pass parameters to built-in kernel modules >> at boot time using the convention <module>.<option>. However, this does >> not work with loadable modules where modprobe reads its options from the >> config files. This patch adds support for modprobe to read /proc/cmdline >> and add any options it finds when inserting the modules. > > This is really nice and will allow us to drop some code both from the > livecd boot path and the installer, both of which read things > from /proc/cmdline and drop them into modprobe.conf if relevant Yeah, it seemed like a nice win overall. I originally tried to hack rc.sysinit to create a temporary file in /etc/modprobe.d from /proc/cmdline, but it didn't work because or readonly /. This is cleaner, anyways. Hope to see it in a module-init-tools release soon. -- Dan _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
