From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: jgarzik@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module parameters reimplementation 0/4
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:39:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021114123940.U30392@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
Rusty wrote:
> Jgarzik wrote:
> > Let's be more friendly to the namespace and call it something less
> > ambiguous, like MODULE_PARAM, even if that might not be strictly true in
> > 1% of the cases. IMO there are certainly valid local uses of 'PARAM' in
> > kernel code.
>
> I disagree. It's a param, subsuming both __setup and MODULE_PARAM.
> The fact that it is implemented for modules is not something for the
> driver author to be concerned about (finally).
You're both wrong ;-) `module' != `loadable module'. module_init()
means `this is where you initialise this module', whether it's built-in
or synamically loaded. MODULE_PARAM() should mean `this is a parameter
for this module', whether it's built-in or dynamically loaded.
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next reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-14 12:39 Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2002-11-14 17:33 ` [PATCH] Module parameters reimplementation 0/4 Rusty Russell
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2002-11-14 4:23 Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 4:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 5:45 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 15:03 ` Andrey Panin
2002-11-14 17:35 ` Rusty Russell
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