Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: fix-processing-of-obsolete-style-setup-options breaks UML arg parsing | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:19:14 -0500 |
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On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:15, Jeff Dike wrote: > UML has a bunch of parameters styled on the hd<n>= and ide<n>= > parameters which depend on matching a prefix of the command-line > argument. This patch explicitly removes this prefix matching. > > I know that this has "obsolete" written all over it, but I don't see > any more modern replacement which allows prefix matching. > module_param seems to be the more modern thing, but AFAICS, it is > matching entire command-line arguments. Strangely, it will match when > the command-line argument is a prefix of the in-kernel parameter > string, which seems exactly backwards. > > The hd<n>= and ide<n>= switches are still present, in ide_setup, using > the old mechanism, and they now seem to be broken as well. >
Argh, I completely missed presence of hd<n>= parameters, sorry...
Andrew, please drop it.
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