From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/15] i810: fix module_param bool abuse.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:36:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0F6E65.7020009@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjjk34wx.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Hi Rusty,
On 01/12/2012 10:57 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:16:04 +0000, Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 12/15/2011 03:03 AM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>>> The driver says "module_param(ddc3, bool, 0);". But it's not a used
>>> as a bool, it's used as a count.
>>>
>>> Make it a bool.
>>>
>>> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
>>> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
>>> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>>
>> Applied.
>
> Hmm, I don't see this in Linus' tree yet, and it's a context-clash
> pre-requisite for part of the general driver bool conversion. I want to
> push today since I have linux.conf.au next week, so I've split the i810
> conversion into a separate patch, below.
Sorry for the delay, but with an OMAP pull and a revert this merge window is not
as quiet as I wished.
> It's been over a week in linux-next, can you push this please?
Sure, I've taken it and also fixed the subject.
Best regards,
Florian Tobias Schandinat
>
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Subject: module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers/vidio/i810)
>
> module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
> fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
> trick.
>
> It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
> it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c b/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c
> --- a/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c
> @@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ static struct pci_driver i810fb_driver > static char *mode_option __devinitdata = NULL;
> static int vram __devinitdata = 4;
> static int bpp __devinitdata = 8;
> -static int mtrr __devinitdata;
> -static int accel __devinitdata;
> +static bool mtrr __devinitdata;
> +static bool accel __devinitdata;
> static int hsync1 __devinitdata;
> static int hsync2 __devinitdata;
> static int vsync1 __devinitdata;
> @@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ static int vsync2 __devinitdata;
> static int xres __devinitdata;
> static int yres;
> static int vyres __devinitdata;
> -static int sync __devinitdata;
> -static int extvga __devinitdata;
> -static int dcolor __devinitdata;
> +static bool sync __devinitdata;
> +static bool extvga __devinitdata;
> +static bool dcolor __devinitdata;
> static bool ddc3 __devinitdata;
>
> /*------------------------------------------------------------*/
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-15 3:15 [PATCH 3/15] i810: fix module_param bool abuse Rusty Russell
2011-12-19 23:16 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2012-01-12 23:09 ` Rusty Russell
2012-01-12 23:36 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat [this message]
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