recent comment on one of my linux.com columns asks about this from
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c:
static int sisusb_first_vc = 0;
static int sisusb_last_vc = 0;
module_param_named(first, sisusb_first_vc, int, 0);
module_param_named(last, sisusb_last_vc, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(first, "Number of first console to take over (1 -
MAX_NR_CONSOLES)");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(last, "Number of last console to take over (1 -
MAX_NR_CONSOLES)");
i have to admit, i'm not sure of the value of invoking
module_param_named() to create alternate names for module parameters
only to give them permissions of zero so that they don't show up under
/sys. maybe i don't really understand parameters as well as i
thought. opinions? what's really happening above?
rday
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