2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Rusty Russell commit f066a4f6df68f03b565dfe867dde54dfeb26576e upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- init/main.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ 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) { @@ -271,14 +271,9 @@ static int __init unknown_bootoption(cha 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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/