From 69116f279a9eaf4c540934269342d9149538fc79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:32:17 +1030 Subject: 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 --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/moduleparam.h') diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h index 794d4b0f1215..6bdde0c3bcca 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ extern int param_set_invbool(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp); extern int param_get_invbool(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp); #define param_check_invbool(name, p) __param_check(name, p, bool) +/* An int, which can only be set like a bool (though it shows as an int). */ +extern struct kernel_param_ops param_ops_bint; +extern int param_set_bint(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp); +#define param_get_bint param_get_int +#define param_check_bint param_check_int + /** * module_param_array - a parameter which is an array of some type * @name: the name of the array variable -- cgit