[PATCH] staging: gs_fpgaboot: get bus width input

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jul 22 06:53:31 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 12:11:22PM +0530, Rahul Gottipati wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 08:32:54AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:57:11AM +0530, Rahul Gottipati wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 08:05:33PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:32:03PM +0530, Rahul Gottipati wrote:
> > > > > This adds a module parameter to get the program bus width as an
> > > > > input rather than hardcoding it, and checks off a TODO item.
> > > > 
> > > > Ick, no, module parameters are from the 1990's, please make this dynamic
> > > > somehow.
> > > 
> > > Hi, I'm pretty new to this. Do you have any ideas/suggestions on how to
> > > do this dynamically?
> > 
> > It all depends on what the paramater is, what it is needed for, and who
> > would ever need to change it.
> > 
> > So I think it would take a bit of domain-specific knowledge here to
> > determine that, it's not a general "code cleanup" task.
> 
> Thanks for the response. So, just to clarify, this task isn't
> appropriate for beginners who are not intimately involved with this
> project right?

Correct.


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