From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, gregkh <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for August 14 (sysfs/acpi errors)
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:48:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A64E0A.8090408@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218856798.3629.45.camel@lgn.site>
>
> They have been module options, not prefixed kernel parameters so far,
> and the prefix was just the module name.
> So it just strikes back, that acpi uses generic names for the modules,
> there would have been no problem if "power" would be called "acpi_power"
> and the options would just be "acpi.acpica_version" and
> "acpi_power.nocheck".
>
> But well, there are driver modules just called "option", so acpi is not
> that bad. :)
>
>> I think the generic params code should be fixed to handle this.
>
> We could try to look up existing directories to use instead of expecting
> that we need to create and own them. I guess,
sysfs does this anyways, doesn't it. We would just need to teach it
to not BUG() in this case, perhaps with a special entry point.
Also a BUG() in general seems a little harsh for this, surely a WARN_ON
should be enough.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-16 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-14 7:29 linux-next: Tree for August 14 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-14 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-14 15:34 ` linux-next: Tree for August 14 (bug: cciss) Randy Dunlap
2008-08-14 15:38 ` linux-next: Tree for August 14 (sysfs/acpi errors) Randy Dunlap
2008-08-14 15:44 ` Greg KH
2008-08-15 2:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15 3:09 ` Zhang Rui
2008-08-15 3:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15 2:41 ` Zhang Rui
2008-08-15 2:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-08-15 11:27 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-15 15:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-08-16 2:36 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-16 2:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-16 3:19 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-16 3:48 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-16 4:47 ` Greg KH
2008-08-17 2:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-17 3:40 ` Greg KH
2008-08-17 3:53 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-18 3:48 ` Greg KH
2008-08-18 9:43 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-18 10:58 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-17 5:13 ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-24 7:59 ` Len Brown
2008-09-25 2:39 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-16 3:47 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-16 3:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-16 5:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-08-16 5:56 ` Rusty Russell
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