Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 14:34:19 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Switch ide parameters to new-style and make them unique. |
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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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