From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Juergen Quade <quade@hs-niederrhein.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module_param( byte ... ) missing? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jan 2004 17:40:26 BST."
             <20040103164026.GA29962@hsnr.de> 
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:06:07 +1100
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In message <20040103164026.GA29962@hsnr.de> you write:
> Rusty,
> 
> using the "byte"-datatype as module parameter throws a compile error.
> Other than stated in the comment of the headerfile <linux/moduleparam.h>
> 
> 	/* Helper functions: type is byte, short, ushort, int, uint, long,
> 	   ulong, charp, bool or invbool, or XXX if you define param_get_XXX,
> 	   param_set_XXX and param_check_XXX. */
> 	#define module_param_named(name, value, type, perm)
> 	...
> 	
> the datatype _byte_ seems not be implemented.
> Have you dropped it intentionally?

No, just not implemented; the comment is overzealous.  

Of course, you can implement byte in two ways: you can do it in your
own module (effectively a private type), or in kernel/params.c.  I'd
prefer the former, and if lots of modules use it, we move it to
kernel/params.c.

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
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