Re: [PATCH ] printk: add module parameter console_suspend to control console_suspend_enabled

From: Dave Young
Date: Tue Aug 09 2011 - 05:59:34 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Yanmin Zhang
<yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:01 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Yanmin Zhang
>> <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > We are enabling some power features on medfield. To test suspend-2-RAM
>> > conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently.
>> >
>> > Below patch adds a module parameter, so users could change it by:
>> > /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend_enabled
>>
>> What about change name to no_console_suspend? Or it will be weird if
>> boot kernel with both no_console_suspend and
>> printk.console_suspend_enabled set.
> Thanks for the comments. How about changing the name to console_suspend?
> If changing it to no_console_suspend, we can't map the input to console_suspend_enabled
> directly.

How about use module_param_cb instead of module_param_named?

>
> Below is the new patch.
>
> ---
>
> We are enabling some power features on medfield. To test suspend-2-RAM
> conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently.
>
> Below patch adds a module parameter, so users could change it by:
> /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend
>
> Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> Âkernel/printk.c | Â Â2 ++
> Â1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
> index 37dff34..1decef6 100644
> --- a/kernel/printk.c
> +++ b/kernel/printk.c
> @@ -1106,6 +1106,8 @@ static int __init console_suspend_disable(char *str)
> Â Â Â Âreturn 1;
> Â}
> Â__setup("no_console_suspend", console_suspend_disable);
> +module_param_named(console_suspend, console_suspend_enabled,
> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
>
> Â/**
> Â* suspend_console - suspend the console subsystem
> --
> 1.7.1
>
>
>
>



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Regards
Yang RuiRui
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