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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-12-01 14:56:44 +1030 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-02 15:40:07 -0800 |
| commit | f066a4f6df68f03b565dfe867dde54dfeb26576e (patch) | |
| tree | 16ed85810334bef0f428dbfa52d595e60dacc381 /init | |
| parent | 86a7b7ef54650b99f7f638d6a6990fe7c0dfaaab (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f066a4f6df68f03b565dfe867dde54dfeb26576e.tar.gz lwn-f066a4f6df68f03b565dfe867dde54dfeb26576e.zip | |
param: don't complain about unused module parameters.
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@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/main.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 5988debfc505..4051d75dd2d6 100644 --- 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(char *param, char *val) 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; |