From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: buytenh@wantstofly.org (Lennert Buytenhek) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 00:31:42 +0200 Subject: [RFC PATCH] arm: kernel: pci: remove pci=firmware command line parameter handling In-Reply-To: <20160301095832.GC31766@red-moon> References: <1456767800-6609-1-git-send-email-lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> <20160229174258.GL5891@wantstofly.org> <20160301095832.GC31766@red-moon> Message-ID: <20160302223142.GS5891@wantstofly.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 09:58:33AM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > > According to kernel documentation, the pci=firmware command line > > > parameter is only meant to be used on IXP2000 ARM platforms to prevent > > > the kernel from assigning PCI resources configured by the bootloader. > > > > > > Since the IXP2000 ARM platforms support has been removed from the > > > kernel in commit: > > > > > > commit c65f2abf54a6 ("ARM: remove ixp23xx and ixp2000 platforms") > > > > > > its platforms specific kernel parameters should be removed > > > too from the kernel documentation along with the kernel code > > > currently handling them in that they have just become obsolete. > > > > > > This patch removes the pci=firmware command line parameter handling > > > from ARM code and the related kernel parameters documentation > > > section. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi > > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann > > > Cc: Lennert Buytenhek > > > Cc: Jonathan Corbet > > > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas > > > Cc: Rob Herring > > > Cc: Russell King > > > > Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek > > Thank you Lennert, I take this as an acknowledgement that you are not > aware of any other ARM platform using that kernel parameter other than > IXP2000s, according to documentation there should not be any but it is a > bit complicated to figure out. I'm not aware of other platforms using this, but that might not say much, I've been out of the loop on Linux/ARM things for a while now.