Re: [PATCH 1/4] gxfb: Replace FBSIZE config option with a kernel argument

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:10:45 -0500
Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:

> @@ -425,7 +424,10 @@ static int __init gxfb_setup(char *options)
>  		if (!*opt)
>  			continue;
>  
> -		mode_option = opt;
> +		if (!strncmp(opt, "fbsize:", 7))
> +			fbsize = simple_strtoul(opt+7, NULL, 0);
> +		else
> +			mode_option = opt;
>  	}

The above shouldn't be necessary.

And it should have been documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

And "fbsize=N" would be a lot more conventional than "fbsize:N"

I suspect that the formulation you have here will not permit "fbsize:128k",
whereas "fbsize=128k" or "gxfb.fbsize=128k" should work.  Needs checking.

>  	return 0;
> @@ -456,5 +458,8 @@ module_exit(gxfb_cleanup);
>  module_param(mode_option, charp, 0);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode_option, "video mode (<x>x<y>[-<bpp>][@<refr>])");
>  
> +module_param(fbsize, int, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(fbsize, "video memory size");
> +

Because the module_param() already makes fbsize available on the kernel
boot command line via gxfb.fbsize=42 (or something similar).



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