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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PARAM 2/4
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:15:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021116071509.GC553@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DD57A84.2070805@pobox.com>

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:51:48PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
[snip] 
> 2) "proper", converted-to-Rusty-style driver code is going to have
> 
> 	MODULE_blah
> 	MODULE_foo
> 	MODULE_bar
> 	PARAM
> 
> You think that looks good??
> 
> 3) modules a.k.a. drivers are going to be the more common users of this 
> interface.
[snip] 
> PARAM is ugly in drivers, and way too generic.

Why not DRIVER_PARAM in this case ? It's enough explicit and not misleading.
I too agree that PARAM is a bit too generic.

Cheers,
Willy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-16  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-15 22:26 [PATCH] PARAM 2/4 Rusty Russell
2002-11-15 22:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-15 23:17   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-16  7:15   ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2002-11-17 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-17 18:21   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-17 18:29     ` Linus Torvalds

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