user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/moduleparam.h, branch v2.6.31.2

module_param: allow 'bool' module_params to be bool, not just int.

2009-06-12T12:16:58Z

Impact: API cleanup For historical reasons, 'bool' parameters must be an int, not a bool. But there are around 600 users, so a conversion seems like useless churn. So we use __same_type() to distinguish, and handle both cases. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module_param: split perm field into flags and perm

2009-06-12T12:16:56Z

Impact: cleanup Rather than hack KPARAM_KMALLOCED into the perm field, separate it out. Since the perm field was 32 bits and only needs 16, we don't add bloat. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module_param: invbool should take a 'bool', not an 'int'

2009-06-12T12:16:56Z

It takes an 'int' for historical reasons, and there are only two users: simply switch it over to bool. The other user (uvesafb.c) will get a (harmless-on-x86) warning until the next patch is applied. Cc: Brad Douglas Cc: Michal Januszewski Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs

2009-03-31T02:35:30Z

Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep the (mangled) module command line around. But when set via sysfs (as about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way out of the write(). Future reads hit random mem. So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module unload. (Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes) Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Christof Schmitt Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

core_param() for genuinely core kernel parameters

2008-10-21T23:00:23Z

There are a lot of one-liner uses of __setup() in the kernel: they're cumbersome and not queryable (definitely not settable) via /sys. Yet it's ugly to simplify them to module_param(), because by default that inserts a prefix of the module name (usually filename). So, introduce a "core_param". The parameter gets no prefix, but appears in /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ (if non-zero perms arg). I thought about using the name "core", but that's more common than "kernel". And if you create a module called "kernel", you will die a horrible death. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: check kernel param length at compile time, not runtime

2008-10-21T23:00:22Z

The kparam code tries to handle over-length parameter prefixes at runtime. Not only would I bet this has never been tested, it's not clear that truncating names is a good idea either. So let's check at compile time. We need to move the #define to moduleparam.h to do this, though. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures

2008-02-14T00:21:19Z

On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where param_set/get are local functions. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964 Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: Kamalesh Babulal Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

remove __attribute_used__

2008-01-28T22:21:18Z

Remove the deprecated __attribute_used__. [Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

constify string/array kparam tracking structures

2007-10-17T15:42:56Z

.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2007-02-19T21:29:02Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update. arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO Storage class should be before const qualifier kernel/printk.c: comment fix update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS. Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README kbuild: more doc. cleanups doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text trivial documentation patch for platform.txt Fix typos concerning hierarchy Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore". Fix misspellings of "agressive". drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch Correct trivial typo in log2.h. Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c. ...