From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:02:17 +0000 (+1030) Subject: module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases. X-Git-Tag: v3.3-rc1~66^2~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69116f279a9eaf4c540934269342d9149538fc79;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Cc: Jean Delvare Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen Cc: Christoph Raisch Cc: Roland Dreier Cc: Sean Hefty Cc: Hal Rosenstock Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai 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 (For the sound part) Acked-by: Guenter Roeck (For the hwmon driver) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- Reading git-diff-tree failed