linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/15] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (sound)

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Message-ID: <8762hdpboj.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:25:40 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (sound)

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:33:50 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
> At Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:49:36 +1030,
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 
> > module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int.  In
> > fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
> > trick.
> > 
> > It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option.  For this version
> > it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
> > 
> > Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>
> > Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> > Cc: alsa-devel@...a-project.org
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> 
> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> 
> (Maybe it'd be good to change with true and false instead of 1 and 0,
>  too.  But it's subtle things and we don't have to mix up in a single
>  patch.)
> 
> Rusty, would you like to merge from your tree, or shall I merge
> through sound tree?

Please take it :)

I'll take the bint one, since that's got other dependencies, but this
one is pure cleanup.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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