From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264360AbUFCVlQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:41:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264367AbUFCVlQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:41:16 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:45822 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264360AbUFCVlC (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:41:02 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Herbert Poetzl , "Zhu, Yi" Subject: Re: idebus setup problem (2.6.7-rc1) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:44:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: Rusty Russell , Auzanneau Gregory , Jeff Garzik , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F8403BD54FE@PDSMSX403.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20040603213115.GA1107@MAIL.13thfloor.at> In-Reply-To: <20040603213115.GA1107@MAIL.13thfloor.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406032344.19152.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 03 of June 2004 23:31, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > 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 We are in stable kernel and in 2.7 'idex=' and 'hdx=' will die. > 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 Sounds awful. Cheers, Bartlomiej