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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:58:39 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: 8250.nr_uarts broken in 3.7
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On 03/08/2013 11:49 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:47:01PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Yeah, I agree this is ugly. Just re-definining MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX at
>> the end of the file should do the trick (followed by
>> "module_param(nr_uarts, uint, 0644)").
> 
> For some reason, I thought I had tried that.  Maybe I didn't.  I'll look
> into it again.

I see. Because we would re-define some global variables. What if we put
module_param into a function?

-- 
js
suse labs
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