Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make all archs use early_param | From | Rusty Russell <> | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:34:14 +1000 |
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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:54 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:18:47PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > To celebrate the 2-year anniversary of the creation of the arch-indep > > early_param() macros and the generic parse_early_param(), this patch > > stops calling it for archs which didn't inserts explicit calls, > > polite FIXMEs and a BUG_ON(). > > Is there any reason why we can't put the early params in a section > discarded after init time (like ARM does with its early param parsing) ?
Good point.
> early params are using obs_kernel_param - is this no longer obsolete ?
Yes... it was originally for __setup, which was supposed to be replaced by module_param() everywhere. It turned out that we never did that (noone really wants a namespace for core parameters), then also overloaded that struct to do early_param()...
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