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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pm2fb: change option mode to mode_option
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:56:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080214135644.7093136e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080214225213.19ab943b.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:52:13 +0100
Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> wrote:

> From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
> 
> This patch changes the option "mode_option" into "mode".
> 
> ...
>  
> -module_param(mode, charp, 0);
> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode, "Preferred video mode e.g. '648x480-8@60'");
> +module_param(mode_option, charp, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode_option, "Initial video mode e.g. '648x480-8@60'");
>  module_param(lowhsync, bool, 0);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(lowhsync, "Force horizontal sync low regardless of mode");
>  module_param(lowvsync, bool, 0);

But it's not backward compatible.  We'll break people's setups.

Not _much_, and we can probably live with it.  But surely it'd be pretty
simple to retain the old option as well?


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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-14 21:52 [PATCH] pm2fb: change option mode to mode_option Krzysztof Helt
2008-02-14 21:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2008-02-15 14:15 krzysztof.h1
2008-02-19  4:41 ` Alain Kalker

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