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SubjectRe: linux-next: Tree for August 14 (sysfs/acpi errors)

>
> They have been module options, not prefixed kernel parameters so far,
> and the prefix was just the module name.
> So it just strikes back, that acpi uses generic names for the modules,
> there would have been no problem if "power" would be called "acpi_power"
> and the options would just be "acpi.acpica_version" and
> "acpi_power.nocheck".
>
> But well, there are driver modules just called "option", so acpi is not
> that bad. :)
>
>> I think the generic params code should be fixed to handle this.
>
> We could try to look up existing directories to use instead of expecting
> that we need to create and own them. I guess,

sysfs does this anyways, doesn't it. We would just need to teach it
to not BUG() in this case, perhaps with a special entry point.
Also a BUG() in general seems a little harsh for this, surely a WARN_ON
should be enough.

-Andi
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