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". >> 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(). thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
