From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx module parameter passing not working (2.5.6) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:29:16 +1000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1097202556.9363.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <7AAD212492598A4A92463C3F5D34C54F194EDC@ccd3.CC.de> <20041001162939.A4215@infradead.org> <20041001165555.GF16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20041008013029.GM16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:62935 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267521AbUJHC3U (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:29:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20041008013029.GM16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Heinzmann, Robert" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 11:30, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:55:55PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > to allow people to switch over. But when I try this, I get: > > sym53c8xx: Unknown parameter `hostid' > sym53c8xx: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones > > It'd be nice to be able to use either for a while. Rusty, is there any > chance of allowing this? Well, it'd never be neat. I'd rather encourage migration: in 2.6.10 I will start my jihad on MODULE_PARM, ideally finished before 2.6.11. It's usually better that someone who knows the code does the transition (you can often do better than a naive substitution), so my first step might be to clean up Linus' compile, then make MODULE_PARM warn, to encourage people to help. Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell