Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:23:43 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: RFC - sysctl or module parameters. |
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On 9/1/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:02:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > Thus we could just have a module option, just add module config > > information to /etc/modprobe.d and run > > modprobe --apply-option-to-active-modules > > at the same time as "sysctl -p" and it would all 'just work' > > whether the module were compiled in to not. > > Ah, you want it after the code is loaded. That's different. > > Would probably work just fine, no objection from me. Except you would > have to hack up the module-init-tools package :) >
This will be pretty hard to implement in general as quite a few module parameters do not allow changing once set and so you will have to virtually reload modules while doing your "modprobe --apply.." trick.
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