Re: idebus setup problem (2.6.7-rc1)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

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

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