module_param: avoid bool abuse, add bint for special cases.

For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or
an unsigned int).  That's going away.

A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter
will set it to 0 or 1.  This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give
'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users
might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1").

Use a new 'bint' parser for them.

(ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because
it's also exposed via sysctl.)

Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> (For the sound part)
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> (For the hwmon driver)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 794d4b0f1215..6bdde0c3bcca 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -367,6 +367,12 @@ extern int param_set_invbool(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp);
 extern int param_get_invbool(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp);
 #define param_check_invbool(name, p) __param_check(name, p, bool)
 
+/* An int, which can only be set like a bool (though it shows as an int). */
+extern struct kernel_param_ops param_ops_bint;
+extern int param_set_bint(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp);
+#define param_get_bint param_get_int
+#define param_check_bint param_check_int
+
 /**
  * module_param_array - a parameter which is an array of some type
  * @name: the name of the array variable