Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:44:24 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: RFC: new utility, kmodpatch Message-ID: <20090103124424.2959f2ac@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20090102221719.GA61058@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20090101183026.GA15385@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <6101e8c40901011117y3e82a226id6f9de940b0f7dcd@mail.gmail.com> <47d0403c0901011619r658fd25ct3d01bc32969bde11@mail.gmail.com> <20090102221719.GA61058@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:17:19 +0100 Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:19:12PM -0500, Ben Kaduk wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Do You think for this project: http://www.ksplice.com/ ? > > > > > > On 1/1/09, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > > >> I mentioned this utility a couple of months ago, and it's now working > > >> so i would like to receive feedback on whether this is good to have > > >> as part of the system, or just keep it as a port (which is what > > >> i plan to do by default). > > >> > > >> In a nutshell, the kmodpatch utility can print or alter the content > > >> of device/quirk tables in kernel modules (I think Linux has some > > >> similar tool, though i don't remember the name -- or perhaps it is > > >> a feature of insmod ?). > > >> > > > > > > Ksplice is not yet in the linux kernel tree, so it's probably not > > what Luigi was referring to. However, it is a pretty impressive > > correct, i think there is some feature (in insmod or whatever the > utility to load a module is) to configure the module so it uses > certain variables (perhaps including recognising a given USB vendor-id pair?) > These are called moduler parameters in Linux parlance and must be built into the drivers themselves. insmod merely provides a mehcanism for passing them to the drivers. --- Gary Jennejohn
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