Re: [PATCH] Switch ide parameters to new-style and make them unique.

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl)
Mon, 12 May 2003 14:34:19 +0200 (MET DST)


On Mon, 12 May 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:

> In message <003f01c31828$c8e9f480$7c07a8c0@kennet.coplanar.net> you write:
> > Cool stuff.
> >
> > As far as making the parameters easy to parse, I think you would want to
> > have a single static tag before the = (equal) sign. The kernel command line
> > parsing stuff provides parsing up to that point and dispatches to each
> > subsystem (or at least it used to), so:
> >
> > ata.dev_noprobe=hda
> >
> > should be
> >
> > ata=dev_noprobe:hda,if_io_irq:0,0x1f0,7
> >
> > or some such to use the generic code that's already there.

Already there? :-)
Generic code to do this would be nice.

> Sure, some more complex generic parsing thing certainly makes sense.
> I think whoever produces the code will probably get to decide what it
> looks like.

For the beginning generic helper which grabs table of strings
(driver params) and pointers to parsing functions ('char *s' arg,
'int' return) would be useful for many drivers...

--
Bartlomiej

> Cheers! > Rusty. > -- > Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

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