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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2012-01-13 09:32:17 +1030 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2012-01-13 09:32:17 +1030 |
| commit | 69116f279a9eaf4c540934269342d9149538fc79 (patch) | |
| tree | eb335b97a99fb25ce548dd06f053a81e3c56016f /include | |
| parent | bafeafeab94b8d3019aac15c2df2ce47b08a6363 (diff) | |
| download | linux-69116f279a9eaf4c540934269342d9149538fc79.tar.bz2 | |
module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.
For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or
an unsigned int). That's going away.
A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter
will set it to 0 or 1. This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give
'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users
might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1").
Use a new 'bint' parser for them.
(ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because
it's also exposed via sysctl.)
Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> (For the sound part)
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> (For the hwmon driver)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/moduleparam.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h index 794d4b0f1215..6bdde0c3bcca 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ extern int param_set_invbool(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp); extern int param_get_invbool(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp); #define param_check_invbool(name, p) __param_check(name, p, bool) +/* An int, which can only be set like a bool (though it shows as an int). */ +extern struct kernel_param_ops param_ops_bint; +extern int param_set_bint(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp); +#define param_get_bint param_get_int +#define param_check_bint param_check_int + /** * module_param_array - a parameter which is an array of some type * @name: the name of the array variable |