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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:15:09 +0100
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
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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