linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix "Malformed early option 'loglevel'"

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Message-ID: <86802c440802280938j75ebc92eu4104fe76d05e704e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:38:27 -0800
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@...il.com>, trivial@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai.lu@....com>
Cc:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix "Malformed early option 'loglevel'"

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@...il.com> wrote:
> According to Rusty Russell in <1155086871.26428.5.camel@...alhost.localdomain>:
>
>     On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 17:10 -0700, Keith Mannthey wrote:
>     > The parameter hotadd_percent is setup right but there is a
>     > "Malformed early option 'numa'" message.
>
>     For the record: this happens when the function registered with
>     early_param() returns non-zero.  __setup() functions return 1 if OK,
>     module_param() and early_param() return 0 or a -ve error code.
>  ---
>
>  For instance:
>
>  Linux version 2.6.25-rc3-t (raa@...el) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #22 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 26
>  BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>   BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
>   BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>   BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
>   BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
>   BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
>   BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
>  Malformed early option 'loglevel'
>  127MB HIGHMEM available.
>  896MB LOWMEM available.
>
>  Command line:
>
>  BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.25-t ro root=809 ro console=ttyS0,57600n8 console=tty0 loglevel=5
>
>   init/main.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>  diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
>  index 8b19820..fbb0167 100644
>  --- a/init/main.c
>  +++ b/init/main.c
>  @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ early_param("quiet", quiet_kernel);
>   static int __init loglevel(char *str)
>   {
>         get_option(&str, &console_loglevel);
>  -       return 1;
>  +       return 0;
>   }
>
>   early_param("loglevel", loglevel);
>  --
>  1.5.4.3.253.g9f1d5

Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...i.com>
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