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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
	Auzanneau Gregory <mls@reolight.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: idebus setup problem (2.6.7-rc1)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:32:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086323563.29391.1039.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406032344.19152.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 07:44, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 03 of June 2004 23:31, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:05:08PM +0800, Zhu, Yi wrote:
> > > Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > > Dislike this idea.  If you have hundreds of parameters, maybe it's
> > > > supposed to be a PITA?
> > >
> > > What's your idea to make module_param support alterable param
> > > names like ide3=xxx ?
> >
> > hmm, what about making all those something like:
> >
> > 	ide=3:foo,bar;4:wossname
> 
> We are in stable kernel and in 2.7 'idex=' and 'hdx=' will die.

Yes, and if you want to clean this up for 2.6, I'd recommend simply
putting twenty module_param_call() lines.

It's ugly, but that's because it's doing ugly things, IMHO, and I don't
think Bart would disagree?

Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-04  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-03 14:05 idebus setup problem (2.6.7-rc1) Zhu, Yi
2004-06-03 21:31 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-06-03 21:44   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-06-04  4:32     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-06-04 22:58       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-07 11:04 Zhu, Yi
2004-06-07 23:00 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-06 13:11 Zhu, Yi
2004-06-07  0:07 ` Rusty Russell
     [not found] <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F84047998B0@PDSMSX403.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2004-05-28  4:50 ` Zhu, Yi
2004-05-28  9:11   ` Auzanneau Gregory
2004-05-28 12:50     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-28 12:52       ` Auzanneau Gregory
2004-05-28 13:10         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-27 16:38 Zhu, Yi
2004-06-03  6:53 ` Rusty Russell
2004-05-27 16:16 Zhu, Yi
2004-05-27 15:21 Zhu, Yi
2004-05-27 15:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-05-27 16:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-27 11:57 Auzanneau Gregory
2004-05-27 14:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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