Messages in this thread | | | From | grant@torque ... | Subject | Re: on command line namespace | Date | Wed, 4 Aug 1999 08:36:26 -0400 (EDT) |
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> is it ok to use a command line syntax like > driver.feature=value > e.g. es1371.gameport=0x201 (or must it be 513 ?) ? > Are there any plans to make information passed that way known to other drivers ? > In the example given above I´d like to pass this information to the joystick > driver.
I did exactly this sort of thing with the PARIDE drivers (pd, pcd, pf, pg, pt) a couple of years ago. I don't know if it has survived Linus' reorganisation of the setup calls, but have a look at a 2.2 kernel to see how it was done.
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