I'am not shure what you mean with a module driver during boot but If you want to pass a option that was entered in the bootline you can read the bootline from /proc/cmdline and with some small shell script extract the part you want and pass that to the module when you insert it.
"David C. Chiu" wrote: > > Thanks for your comment Wolfgang. > > The driver in question is compiled as module, and the last time I > checked (a year ago) there isn't a way to pass an argument to a module > driver during boot time. Has this changed? The kernel is 2.4 series. > > -----Original Message----- > Wolfgang Denk > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:57 PM > > In message <8A098FDFC6EED94B872CA2033711F86F0ABD0C at orion.ariodata.com> > you wrote: > > > We're working on a project that requires a two megabytes block of > > contiguous memory in kernel space. Although it is well documented that > > memory can be reserved by using mem=xx arguments during boot time, it > is > > unclear (to me) as to how a driver can automatically detect the size > of > > the said reserved block. > > Pass an extra boot argument? -- Kenneth Johansson Ericsson Telecom Tel: +46 8 404 71 83 Vider?gatan 3 Fax: +46 8 404 72 72 164 80 Stockholm kenneth.johansson at etx.ericsson.se ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
