Re: [PATCH 0/1] add support for enum module parameters

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On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 08:13:47 +0300 Kalle Valo wrote:
> Wireless drivers would also desperately need to pass device specific
> parameters at (or before) probe time. And not only debug parameters but
> also configuration parameters, for example firmware memory allocations
> schemes (optimise for features vs number of clients etc) and whatnot.
> 
> Any ideas how to implement that? Is there any prior work for anything
> like this? This is pretty hard limiting usability of upstream wireless
> drivers and I really want to find a proper solution.

In netdev we have devlink which is used for all sort of device
configuration. devlink-resource sounds like what you need,
but it'd have to be extended to support configuration which requires
reload/re-probe. Currently only devlink-params support that but params
were a mistake so don't use that.



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