rusty at rustcorp
Nov 30, 2009, 8:26 PM
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[PATCH] param: don't complain about unused module parameters.
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Jon confirms that recent modprobe will look in /proc/cmdline, so these
cmdline options can still be used.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14164
Reported-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam [at] redhat>
Cc: stable [at] kernel
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty [at] rustcorp>
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init/main.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ early_param("loglevel", loglevel);
/*
* Unknown boot options get handed to init, unless they look like
- * failed parameters
+ * unused parameters (modprobe will find them in /proc/cmdline).
*/
static int __init unknown_bootoption(char *param, char *val)
{
@@ -272,14 +272,9 @@ static int __init unknown_bootoption(cha
if (obsolete_checksetup(param))
return 0;
- /*
- * Preemptive maintenance for "why didn't my misspelled command
- * line work?"
- */
- if (strchr(param, '.') && (!val || strchr(param, '.') < val)) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "Unknown boot option `%s': ignoring\n", param);
+ /* Unused module parameter. */
+ if (strchr(param, '.') && (!val || strchr(param, '.') < val))
return 0;
- }
if (panic_later)
return 0;
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