On 05/20/2011 11:13 AM, DenverD wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 04:10 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>> The file is in the kernel source, which is where you found it earlier.
>> To get it for 2.6.37, you need to install that package.
>
> you are right! it is in source (and not doc, as i had misremembered)…
Anyone that does kernel development gets very used to perusing the information
in the Documentation tree of the kernel sources.
One word of caution - driver developers do not always update that file. To see a
complete list of the parameters that a given driver will accept at load time, do
a ‘grep module_param’ on the sources for that driver. For example, b43 handles
the following options:
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(bad_frames_preempt,
modparam_bad_frames_preempt, int, 0444);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_string(fwpostfix,
modparam_fwpostfix, 16, 0444);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(hwpctl, modparam_hwpctl, int,
0444);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(nohwcrypt,
modparam_nohwcrypt, int, 0444);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(hwtkip, modparam_hwtkip, int,
0444);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(qos, modparam_qos, int, 0444);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(btcoex, modparam_btcoex, int,
0444);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(verbose,
b43_modparam_verbose, int, 0644);
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:module_param_named(pio, b43_modparam_pio, int,
0644);