On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:

> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > It cannot be fixed up at runtime, as the __setup header needs
> > the _prefixed_ tag at compile time (look into linux/init.h),
> > so its not possible to have
> > #define MODULE_NAME(foo) \
> > char *modname=foo;
> > 
> > and the parameter function reference modname and do some
> > strcat et al.
> 
> Yes, but the code that physically parses the option strings could be aware
> of the ".c" when looking for a match.

I dont think linus likes this (the parsing is in init/main.c, if I
remember, just a loop which checks for the strings contained in
the .setup section) - its quite ugly, I think.

Richard.

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