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Message-ID: <20070517144420.GA3529@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:44:20 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/44 take 2] [UBI] startup code
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:58:28AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Why not? We tried to avoid this but found out that this is the most
> > decent interface. Specific advises are welcome.
>
> because this type of compount interface is really painful for the user.
> the module.param=foo syntax makes sure paramaters can be used without
> endless documentation for each and every single of them, and makes
> sure module writers don't introduce bugs in their own parser reimplementations.
>
> Rusty, was it intentional that drivers can use __module_param_call?
> Do you think the ubi use here is okay?
So both I and Rusty told you not to do this and you did it anyway.
I'm quite pissed about this ignorance. Andrew, what do we do about such
a case? Should we just revert ubi until they fixed their mess up?
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