On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:27:25AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Ben Widawsky <b...@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> > +module_param_named_unsafe(disable_firmware_loading, 
> > i915.disable_firmware_loading, uint, 0400);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_firmware_loading,
> > +   "Bypass loading of firmware based on mask. This overrides all other 
> > firmware module parameters. (0:all firmwares enabled (default), 
> > 1<<0:disable GuC, 1<<1:disable DMC");
> 
> I'd like all parameters like this to read "enable", defaulting to
> enabled or disabled, possibly with platform specific defaults.
> 
> I know there's the underlying assumption that firmware loading is
> enabled by default, therefore disabling is a special case, so you call
> this disable. But we've already got enable_whatnot, with all kinds of
> defaults. The disable_whatnot ones are confusing.
> 
> I can easily imagine adding platform specific defaults to
> enable_firmware_loading, particularly during platform enabling.
> 
> BR,
> Jani.

I'm happy to change it, but it'd be nice to have some kind of ack that someone
will merge it before I bother with that.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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