Hi Keiichi, On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, KII Keiichi wrote: > Hi Satyam, > > > After more discussion, Joel suggested the idea to separately manage the > > lifetimes of the two kinds of netconsole_target objects, those created while > > parsing boot/module options and those created via configfs mkdir(2) from > > userspace, in my driver itself. That adds a little bit of complexity and > > redundancy (multiple item creation and destruction points) in this driver. > > Note that the latter type (configfs-created netconsole_targets) can be > > modified / updated / destroyed at runtime from userspace but the former > > (param string created) cannot, as they are not exposed through our configfs > > namespace. However, this is not really a problem and is similar to current > > behaviour in any case. > > Maybe you should add the above description into > Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt. > The users of netconsole applied these patches may think that they can change > parameters of netconsole_target(param string created at the time of parsing > boot/options).
Yes, you're absolutely right. This definitely needs to be mentioned in the documenation -- I'll take care of this in the next iteration. Satyam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
