Re: How useful is modctl(8)'s display of 'address' field?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1512020701320.2040%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>,
Paul Goyette  <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
>In many cases the output from modctl(8) appears "ugly" due to lines
>being longer than (default terminal width of) 80 characters.  Looking
>at the output, it seems to me that there isn't much usefulness (in
>userland) for displaying the kernel address of the module's address.
>
>I'd like to propose that, by default, we suppress the printing of the
>address field, and add a command line option to re-enable it.  (As an
>alternative, we could add an option to suppress it, which would avoid
>changing default behavior.)
>
>Any comments?  Objections?

sounds good to me.

christos