On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:19:29AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> perhaps i'm missing it, but it seems that the macro __setup_param is
> entirely superfluous:
>
> $ grep -rw __setup_param *
> include/linux/init.h:#define __setup_param(str, unique_id, fn, early) \
> include/linux/init.h: __setup_param(str, unique_id, NULL, 0)
> include/linux/init.h: __setup_param(str, fn, fn, 0)
> include/linux/init.h: __setup_param(str, fn, fn, 1)
> include/linux/init.h:#define __setup_param(str, unique_id, fn) /* nothing */
> $
>
> or am i must misreading something badly?
>
Superfluous how? It does different things depending on whether MODULE is
defined or not. It's a good indicator of how often people use
__setup_param() from module context though, given the complete mismatch
of parameters. It's probably worth fixing that up at least.
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