Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Switch ide parameters to new-style and make them unique. | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 16:37:29 +1000 |
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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.
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