From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Tobias Schandinat Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:36:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/15] i810: fix module_param bool abuse. Message-Id: <4F0F6E65.7020009@gmx.de> List-Id: References: <874nx2tu1v.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <4EEFC5B4.9000704@gmx.de> <87sjjk34wx.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <87sjjk34wx.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Rusty Russell Cc: lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Antonino Daplas , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll Hi Rusty, On 01/12/2012 10:57 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:16:04 +0000, Florian Tobias Schandinat 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 >>> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat >>> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org >>> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell >> >> 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 > 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 > > 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; > > /*------------------------------------------------------------*/ > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >