Re: Re: [PATCH] Handle disabled local apic better

[Len Brown <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 14:28, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > > No, even when you parse in parse_cmdline_early() you need a __setup,
> > > otherwise the normal __setup parser will complain about unknown 
> > > options.
> > 
> > Huh?  So if I boot a kernel with an unknown parameter, say
> > "len=gone_fishing", where would I expect to see the complaint -- I don't
> > see it in my dmesg except where the entire commmand line is dumped out.
> 
> That will result in a environment variable len in init's environment with
> value gone_fishing and is not unknown. But nolapic doesn't have a = 

ah, so parse_args() extracts cmdline params with '=' and what it doesn't
recognize make it to init's environment.  looks like i recently added
some potential environment pollution to init's environment then...

thanks,
-Len




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