module_param: allow 'bool' module_params to be bool, not just int.
Impact: API cleanup
For historical reasons, 'bool' parameters must be an int, not a bool.
But there are around 600 users, so a conversion seems like useless churn.
So we use __same_type() to distinguish, and handle both cases.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index b4660dc..7f6912c 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -238,35 +238,54 @@
return sprintf(buffer, "%s", *((char **)kp->arg));
}
+/* Actually could be a bool or an int, for historical reasons. */
int param_set_bool(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
{
+ bool v;
+
/* No equals means "set"... */
if (!val) val = "1";
/* One of =[yYnN01] */
switch (val[0]) {
case 'y': case 'Y': case '1':
- *(int *)kp->arg = 1;
- return 0;
+ v = true;
+ break;
case 'n': case 'N': case '0':
- *(int *)kp->arg = 0;
- return 0;
+ v = false;
+ break;
+ default:
+ return -EINVAL;
}
- return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (kp->flags & KPARAM_ISBOOL)
+ *(bool *)kp->arg = v;
+ else
+ *(int *)kp->arg = v;
+ return 0;
}
int param_get_bool(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp)
{
+ bool val;
+ if (kp->flags & KPARAM_ISBOOL)
+ val = *(bool *)kp->arg;
+ else
+ val = *(int *)kp->arg;
+
/* Y and N chosen as being relatively non-coder friendly */
- return sprintf(buffer, "%c", (*(int *)kp->arg) ? 'Y' : 'N');
+ return sprintf(buffer, "%c", val ? 'Y' : 'N');
}
+/* This one must be bool. */
int param_set_invbool(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
{
- int boolval, ret;
+ int ret;
+ bool boolval;
struct kernel_param dummy;
dummy.arg = &boolval;
+ dummy.flags = KPARAM_ISBOOL;
ret = param_set_bool(val, &dummy);
if (ret == 0)
*(bool *)kp->arg = !boolval;
