Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 2014 17:26:35 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: men_z135_uart: Fix driver for changes in hardware |
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 07:56:15AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 04:17:33PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > > @@ -118,6 +117,10 @@ static int align; > > > module_param(align, int, S_IRUGO); > > > MODULE_PARM_DESC(align, "Keep hardware FIFO write pointer aligned, default 0"); > > > > > > +static int rx_timeout; > > > +module_param(rx_timeout, uint, S_IRUGO); > > > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(rx_timeout, "RX timeout"); > > > > Why add a module parameter? Who will know to set this? And to what > > value? > > > > There will be a user manual describing the parameter. It's like the rxlvl and > txlvl parameters, you'll have to read the manual if you need other values than > the default ones.
Ugh, but module parameters are for all devices in the system of this type, which is why we try not to have them at all anymore.
And I don't like the other module parameters either :(
But it's an odd-one-off driver, I guess we can live...
> > And what about this driver working on old hardware, didn't you just > > break this? > > > > No. Currently the hardware is in a testing stage at only one customer and it is > an IP-Core inside a FPGA, so it can be (and already is) updated. So we can be > save to assume this is O.K.
Ok, can you please resend this, it's gone from my queue now.
greg k-h
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