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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2012-01-13 03:02:17 +0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2012-01-13 03:02:17 +0400
commit69116f279a9eaf4c540934269342d9149538fc79 (patch)
treeeb335b97a99fb25ce548dd06f053a81e3c56016f /fs
parentbafeafeab94b8d3019aac15c2df2ce47b08a6363 (diff)
downloadlinux-69116f279a9eaf4c540934269342d9149538fc79.tar.xz
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 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ntfs/super.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
index 608be4516091..5a4a8af5c406 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
@@ -3198,7 +3198,7 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NTFS 1.2/3.x driver - Copyright (c) 2001-2011 Anton Altaparm
MODULE_VERSION(NTFS_VERSION);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#ifdef DEBUG
-module_param(debug_msgs, bool, 0);
+module_param(debug_msgs, bint, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug_msgs, "Enable debug messages.");
#endif