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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:31:15 +0200
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: "Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: idebus setup problem (2.6.7-rc1)
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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:05:08PM +0800, Zhu, Yi wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 
> > Dislike this idea.  If you have hundreds of parameters, maybe it's
> > supposed to be a PITA? 
> 
> What's your idea to make module_param support alterable param
> names like ide3=xxx ?

hmm, what about making all those something like:

	ide=3:foo,bar;4:wossname

where ':' and ';' are arbitrarily chosen atm ...
or, if it should be handled at the 'argument' level
maybe the 'notion' of arrays would help, something
like
	
	ide[3]=foo,bar

where ide is defined as array of strings, size 16

best,
Herbert

> Thanks,
> -yi
> 
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