linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] drivers/base: Add a DEVICE_BOOL

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Message-ID: <20121017204426.GA22994@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:44:26 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] drivers/base: Add a DEVICE_BOOL_ATTR macro

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:36:12PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:29:00PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Take the function already from the module code, it should be reusable,
> > if not, it would be a good idea to make it so.
> 
> Function from module code? Do you mean param_get_bool/param_set_bool in
> kernel/params.c?

Yes, that's what I was thinking of, but I guess it just comes down to a
call to strtobool(), which is what you need here.

greg k-h
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