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Date:	Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:54:27 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 18:22 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> but I wonder how many other early_param
> "option=" args are wrong (e.g. "memmap=" in the same file): x86_64
> shows many such, i386 shows only one, I've not followed it up further.

Thanks Hugh.

Andrew, here's that i386 fix:

Subject: Fix acpi_sci early_param

Unlike __setup which just does prefix matching, early_param does actual
command-line parsing (as module_param), so no "=" is needed or desired.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

--- linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c.~1~	2006-08-07 12:40:14.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c	2006-08-07 12:49:42.000000000 +1000
@@ -1292,4 +1292,4 @@
 		return -EINVAL;
 	return 0;
 }
-early_param("acpi_sci=", setup_acpi_sci);
+early_param("acpi_sci", setup_acpi_sci);

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