On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:06:29AM +0100, Magnus Damm wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:51:04 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:10:27PM +0100, Magnus Damm wrote: > > > Remove "dvb_"-prefix from parameters. Without the patch all parameters > > > except > > > the declaration of parameter "frontend_debug" have a "dvb_"-prefix. > > > > Why is that dvb_ prefix a problem? > > It is no biggie and probably not worth breaking users' configuration > like you said, but most drivers do not have their KBUILD_MODNAME > included in the parameter names. > > Setting parameters that have KBUILD_MODNAME as prefix from the kernel > commandline is then done by KBUILD_MODNAME.KBUILD_MODNAME_xxx and that > is plain ugly - especially when a list of parameters are generated > from the source. > Some bad citizens IMO: > > dvb.dvb_shutdown_timeout, asus.asus_gid, arlan.arlan_entry_debug
I agree it's ugly. For now it's better not to touch them anyway. Johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
