Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

13 Jan, 2012

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  • 69116f279   module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases. ... Browse Code »

    For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or
    an unsigned int). That's going away.

    A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter
    will set it to 0 or 1. This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give
    'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users
    might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1").

    Use a new 'bint' parser for them.

    (ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because
    it's also exposed via sysctl.)

    Cc: Steve Glendinning
    Cc: Jean Delvare
    Cc: Guenter Roeck
    Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen
    Cc: Christoph Raisch
    Cc: Roland Dreier
    Cc: Sean Hefty
    Cc: Hal Rosenstock
    Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
    Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
    Acked-by: Takashi Iwai (For the sound part)
    Acked-by: Guenter Roeck (For the hwmon driver)
    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

    Rusty Russell
     

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