Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx module parameter passing not working (2.5.6)

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:55:55PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:29:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Given that no one except you noticed the lack of options so far what
> > about moving it to normal parameters instead, aka one option per setting
> > like all non-scsi and resent scsi drivers do?
> 
> I think it's definitely time to make this change.  I'll look at it later
> today.

I have it working ... but there's no way to do a graceful transition.
I had in mind something like:

+       printk(NAME53C8XX "Using old-style setup code.  Please switch to new "
+                       "module param code.\n"
+                       "See Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt for "
+                       "details.\n");
+

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?

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