From: John L. <le...@mo...> - 2003-05-06 21:31:17
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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:45:27PM -0400, William Cohen wrote: > I revised the patch to apply to the 2.5.69 kernel and added support so > there is a boot line option "oprofile_timer" that will force oprofile to > use the timer regardless of performance monitoring hardware. The > "oprofile_timer=1" can still be used at module load to force use of the > timer interrupt mechanism. This is wrong, __setup() is obsolete, see the comment around __setup() definition. You should be using module_param() API. Note in particular, MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX in moduleparam.h. So it can simply be called "timer" or maybe "force_timer" Sorry I wasn't clearer about this. regards, john |