From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for August 14 (sysfs/acpi errors)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:59:41 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809240353520.20067@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808171513.13611.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sunday 17 August 2008 12:30:34 Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 05:48:26AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >>> 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".
I think we (all) agree that we should keep the acpi gunk together,
rather than creating namespace sprawl to satisfy the current sysfs code.
> > >>> 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.
> > >
> > > It is a WARN() call, not a BUG().
> >
> > Ok. Can we remove it? Or add a new entry point that allows to disable it?
> >
> > I don't think relying on link order like Rusty proposes is a good long term
> > solution.
>
> To be clear, I agree with Andi. If this is for current kernel I'd just fix
> link order, for longer term we need something cleverer.
This problem first shows up with the addition of the
acpi.power_nocheck modparam, which is staged for 2.6.28.
Is 2.6.28 "current" or longer term?
thanks,
-Len
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 8:00 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
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 [this message]
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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