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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrey Panin <pazke@orbita1.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module parameters reimplementation 0/4 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:03:42 +0300."
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:35:57 +1100
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In message <20021114150325.GA313@pazke.ipt> you write:
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> On =D0=A7=D1=82=D0=B2, =D0=9D=D0=BE=D1=8F 14, 2002 at 03:23:00 +1100, Rusty=
>  Russell wrote:
> > Types "short", "ushort", "int", "ulong", "bool", "invbool" etc are
> > implemented pre-canned.  You can define your own, see linux/params.h
> > for how.

> Why not u8, u16, u32 etc ?

I could have, but in practice that doesn't seem to be how people use
them.  But that may be a legacy of MODULE_PARM().  If I guessed wrong,
more can be added trivially.

Cheers,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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