* parse-boot-parameter-error.patch breaks UML
@ 2006-12-22 20:53 Jeff Dike
2006-12-22 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Dike @ 2006-12-22 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, Shaohua Li; +Cc: linux-kernel
>From the changelog:
Say a boot parameter is "xxx", if you give a string "xxxy", then the
boot parameter's corresponding function is executed.
UML has parameters such as "ubda=<filename>" which are matched by
__setup("ubd", ubd_setup), which hits the "error" case this patch now
outlaws.
Jeff
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* Re: parse-boot-parameter-error.patch breaks UML
2006-12-22 20:53 parse-boot-parameter-error.patch breaks UML Jeff Dike
@ 2006-12-22 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2006-12-22 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Dike; +Cc: Shaohua Li, linux-kernel
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:53:38 -0500
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> wrote:
> >From the changelog:
>
> Say a boot parameter is "xxx", if you give a string "xxxy", then the
> boot parameter's corresponding function is executed.
>
> UML has parameters such as "ubda=<filename>" which are matched by
> __setup("ubd", ubd_setup), which hits the "error" case this patch now
> outlaws.
>
yup, I dropped the patch for this reason, thanks.
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