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

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.

Cheers!
Rusty.
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