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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Rusty Russell wrote:

> Finally, if you do not use your own types, PARAM() can be #defined
> into a MODULE_PARM statement for 2.4 kernels (ie. backwards
> compatible).  Patch 4/4 also translates old-style MODULE_PARM() into
> PARAMs at load time, for existing modules.



Let's be more friendly to the namespace and call it something less 
ambiguous, like MODULE_PARAM, even if that might not be strictly true in 
1% of the cases.  IMO there are certainly valid local uses of 'PARAM' in 
kernel code.

You can see from the totally gratuitous patch to 
include/asm-i386/setup.h which should have been a clue...

If this was C++ we could just stick PARAM in the "rusty" namespace and 
be done with it, but such as things are......  ;-)

	Jeff



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