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Re: [PATCH] generate module-info on the fly



On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:29 +0900, HARA Hiroshi wrote:
> by the way, I have a question about module format.
> according to module-info comment, this format is the
> following.
> 
> #  |<module-name>
> #  |  <module-type> [<module-alias>]
> #  |  "<description-string>"
> #  |  <argument> "<argument-description-string>" ["<match-regex>"
> ["<default>"]]
> #  |# <comment>
> 
> but attached scripts does not take care of "<argument>".
> actually I've never used "<argument>", so I do not know
> it will be used in next version and for what.

Arguments are for specifying optional module args.  Used once upon a
time for making sure people specified ioport and irq for their isa
devices.  Not really relevant today (or even considered)

Jeremy


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