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Subject: Re: idebus setup problem (2.6.7-rc1)
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
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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