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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher@datastacks.com>
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Subject: Re: Whats in the wings for 2.5 (when it opens) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:31:00 -0400."
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:31:00 -0400, 
Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher@datastacks.com> wrote:
>++ 22/09/01 12:59 +1000 - Keith Owens:
>> Post kbuild 2.5 I will be writing a generic parameter/command line
>> interface so you can insmod foo bar=99 or boot with foo.bar=99.  You
>> will even be able to boot with foo.bar=99 when foo is a module, insmod
>> will use the command line as a default set of values.
>
>Well, that certainly is clean. How deep does it go?

One level, flat.  Module names must be unique, -DKBUILD_OBJECT runs off
module names.