From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: what means "module_param(channel_mask, channel_mask, 0644)"?
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:01:02 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0907110658370.4257@localhost> (raw)
researching my next newbie column about module parameters and i ran
across the following:
drivers/input/misc/ati_remote2.c:module_param(channel_mask, channel_mask, 0644);
drivers/input/misc/ati_remote2.c:module_param(mode_mask, mode_mask, 0644);
i have no idea what it means to have the second (type) field of
module_param() simply repeat the name of the parameter. is this some
strange magic? those two names don't *appear* to be typedef'ed
anywhere i can see.
rday
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next reply other threads:[~2009-07-11 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-11 11:01 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2009-07-11 11:07 ` what means "module_param(channel_mask, channel_mask, 0644)"? Robert P. J. Day
2009-07-11 12:41 ` Paul Bolle
2009-07-11 12:40 ` Robert P. J. Day
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