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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:14 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>
>  Since the command line is logically delimited by spaces, you can
>  accidently disable a subsystem if its name appears in any of your kernel
>  options following your cgroup_disable= option.

I think that you're confusing this with things like the very early
memory init setup parameters, which do operate on the raw commandline.

By the time anything is passed to a __setup() function, it's already
been split into separate strings at space boundaries.

Paul