netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] module_param: make bool parameters really bool (net & drivers/net)

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Date:	Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:56:36 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] module_param: make bool parameters really bool
 (net & drivers/net)

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:38:01 +1030

> 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.
> 
> (Thanks to Joe Perches for suggesting coccinelle for 0/1 -> true/false).
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

Applied.
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