Re: [PATCH 06/44 take 2] [UBI] startup code

Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17T14:44:29Z

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:58:28AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Why not? We tried to avoid this but found out that this is the most
> > decent interface. Specific advises are welcome.
>
> because this type of compount interface is really painful for the user.
> the module.param=foo syntax makes sure paramaters can be used without
> endless documentation for each and every single of them, and makes
> sure module writers don't introduce bugs in their own parser reimplementations.
>
> Rusty, was it intentional that drivers can use __module_param_call?
> Do you think the ubi use here is okay?

So both I and Rusty told you not to do this and you did it anyway.

I'm quite pissed about this ignorance. Andrew, what do we do about such
a case? Should we just revert ubi until they fixed their mess up?