On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:34:13 -0400 (EDT) Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Is there anyway to get/see what parameters were passed to a kernel module?
> Running modinfo -p <module> will show the defaults, but for example, st,
> the scsi tape driver, is there a way to see what it is currently using? I
> know in dmesg it shows this when you load it initially (but if say dmesg
> has been cleared or the buffer was filled up)?
If a "module" (whether built as a loadable module or builtin to the
kernel image) uses module_param() with a permission (or mode) field
that allows reading that parameter, then the parameter will show up
in /sys/module/<module>/parameters/<parameter>.
E.g., drivers/scsi/sg has these parameters listed and are readable
by anyone:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:07 allow_dio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:07 def_reserved_size
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:07 scatter_elem_sz
However, the st driver uses 0 for permission (mode), so none of its
parameters is visible.
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~Randy
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