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SubjectRe: fix-processing-of-obsolete-style-setup-options breaks UML arg parsing
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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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Dmitry
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