On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:19:29AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > perhaps i'm missing it, but it seems that the macro __setup_param is
> > entirely superfluous:
> >
> > $ grep -rw __setup_param *
> > include/linux/init.h:#define __setup_param(str, unique_id, fn, early) \
> > include/linux/init.h: __setup_param(str, unique_id, NULL, 0)
> > include/linux/init.h: __setup_param(str, fn, fn, 0)
> > include/linux/init.h: __setup_param(str, fn, fn, 1)
> > include/linux/init.h:#define __setup_param(str, unique_id, fn) /* nothing */
> > $
> >
> > or am i must misreading something badly?
> Superfluous how? It does different things depending on whether
> MODULE is defined or not. It's a good indicator of how often people
> use __setup_param() from module context though, given the complete
> mismatch of parameters. It's probably worth fixing that up at least.
never mind, i've already clued in. up too long, and trying to do too
many things at once. more sleep or more coffee -- time to make a
decision. sorry for the noise.
rday
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