user/sven/linux.git/kernel/params.c, branch v3.4.15

params: _initcall-like kernel parameters

2012-03-26T02:20:51Z

This patch adds a set of macros that can be used to declare kernel parameters to be parsed _before_ initcalls at a chosen level are executed. We rename the now-unused "flags" field of struct kernel_param as the level. It's signed, for when we use this for early params as well, in future. Linker macro collating init calls had to be modified in order to add additional symbols between levels that are later used by the init code to split the calls into blocks. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module_param: remove support for bool parameters which are really int.

2012-03-26T02:20:51Z

module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy trick. This eliminates that code (though leaves the flags field in the struct, for impending use). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h

2012-02-29T00:31:56Z

Different tree maintainers picked up independently generated trivial compile fixes based on linux-next testing, resulting in some cases where a file would have got more than one addition of module.h once everything was all merged together. Delete any duplicates so includecheck isn't complaining about anything related to module.h/export.h changes. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

module: make module param bint handle nul value

2012-02-14T00:32:15Z

Allow bint param accept nul values, just do same as bool param. Signed-off-by: Dave Young Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.

2012-01-12T23:02:17Z

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

kernel/params: replace DEBUGP with pr_debug

2012-01-12T23:02:15Z

Use more flexible pr_debug. This allows: echo "module params +p" > /dbg/dynamic_debug/control to turn on debug messages when needed. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

kernel: params.c needs module.h not moduleparam.h

2011-10-31T13:20:13Z

Through various other implicit include paths, some files were getting the full module.h file, and hence living the illusion that they really only needed moduleparam.h -- but the reality is that once you remove the module.h presence, these show up: kernel/params.c:583: warning: ‘struct module_kobject’ declared inside parameter list Such files really require module.h so simply make it so. As the file module.h grabs moduleparam.h on the fly, all will be well. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal

2011-10-26T02:40:39Z

The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar". Make sure it works the other way around too. Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup params as well. The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that this is the intended behaviour. With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545 Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (neatened implementations)

module: add /sys/module//uevent files

2011-07-24T12:36:04Z

Userspace wants to manage module parameters with udev rules. This currently only works for loaded modules, but not for built-in ones. To allow access to the built-in modules we need to re-trigger all module load events that happened before any userspace was running. We already do the same thing for all devices, subsystems(buses) and drivers. This adds the currently missing /sys/module//uevent files to all module entries. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (split & trivial fix)

module: change attr callbacks to take struct module_kobject

2011-07-24T12:36:04Z

This simplifies the next patch, where we have an attribute on a builtin module (ie. module == NULL). Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (split into 2)