Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre5

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 01:12:53 +0100, 
Stephan von Krawczynski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>BTW, for the further ongoing of this patch, I ran into the question if
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>MODULE_PARM(type, "1-(16)i");                                         
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>would be a valid statement. I guess not. But if not, could some kind  
>soul please explain to me how to get rid of the braces "(" ")" given  
>in definitions from CONFIG stuff.                                     
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>E.g.:                                                                 
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>CONFIG_ME_BEING_DUMB (16)                                             

Don't do that.  CONFIG numbers are expected to be plain numbers, not
expressions, e.g. CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=16, not (16).
Given the fragility of CML1 I would not be surprised if (16) broke some
of the shell scripts.