linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.27.3 usbcore] Move __module_param_call(nousb) to immediately after declaration of nousb.

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0810251126390.4073-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
cc:	greg@...ah.com, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27.3 usbcore] Move __module_param_call(nousb) to
 immediately after declaration of nousb.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I tried on Fedora 9 (gcc (GCC) 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)),
> and I got the same result.
> 
> Just applying http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2008/10/24/240/1 :

You've got a possible problem here:

> +static int param6;
> +module_param_named(paramtest, param6, int, 0644);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(paramtest, "param6");

You used paramtest as both the name of the module and the name of 
the parameter.  I don't know if that would cause the error you're 
seeing, though.  You might want to try again using a different name, 
like param6test.

Alan Stern

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