From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C08A54CDA30 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789499127; cv=none; b=WY+YVE21ZC8smaazrim45RHNdeuuHnUlwvje3YVjwB9q0zixtEsBSZwR5BMEz5dEfRdSjVeGl1wL/q7qO4z/Ej0XccTfmSNtAfTF9eFw2dP9/mQju8/3qkuNcSZHaB43ouTImiK4+1QVt2zw6z/N41a77o4mdCQYPG+4PsqjbsI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789499127; c=relaxed/simple; bh=n3loMqr+GZfBR6Ve82tKdG4Jkfg6eHJMDQWbwHfIQpQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=HYe7PQLPjCSi899GSbXwGJTvRh+L7jD56P+VkfDycOwYQw1UHMiYlldatj8Y2flIEaHmLutbaipJVARuJf5UoxYn0eOOWDFxau2o2LDARyeLRFm39pddHQouzfcMKcurz+SDt1NSE8pCaVfTsnm7lOviBjQfvpFeedK1awTx44U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=AezeimY/; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="AezeimY/" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net B2E62408B4 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1789499125; bh=s1U6htYr3KDizbM+pvOno5keAAu3JxFYL37YugBOwe0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=AezeimY/EDjo3fPXgLQ44KDX5OPDDr1xgkzE1EhmKpD7gPcaQSQjTSBElZiXRAxkA KILGB8FKia8q5oNdr52WrUsQ98GO/HtHsqLdegw4wrlygVFdOuGgh9g9snNDr4/8xu 3nvYU1Vx2XmgdCGifzb4oYWcVmckQsdkkneZfv9nQVhXlKHvuBuFghnI5XGCItVg/g ZbyiL+JDMXAEQJLWXR3mnwgj5xXni5CX8KEjZWj/8+FYBxZMvVy+Lx9PB0iDEc1rxP 2yXvNg8nDcC3z1IJWmSFuW7cFS4GUm3/ZxZF6K/VLoGUYXIlJW0ebXouEL15PEJbdx SQIzW0KKooMcA== Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:4600:814::1fe]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B2E62408B4; Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:05:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Karl Mehltretter Cc: Karl Mehltretter , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, Dmitry Torokhov , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, Steve Wahl , Dimitri Sivanich , Mike Travis , Tony Luck , linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, Krzysztof Kozlowski , Arnd Bergmann , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Tony Lindgren , Kevin Hilman , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Dominik Brodowski , Michael Schmitz , Andreas Kemnade Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] docs: kernel-parameters: Remove eight entries for parameters that no longer exist In-Reply-To: <20260910013245.8619-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> References: <20260910013245.8619-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:05:23 -0600 Message-ID: <875x069vyk.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Karl Mehltretter writes: > kernel-parameters.txt still documents eight boot parameters whose parsing > code was removed with the drivers or platforms that used them, one of > them (atarimouse=) since before the git history. There is one patch per > parameter, with a Fixes: tag where the removal is in git history. > Each entry was checked with git grep for its __setup(), early_param() > and module_param() handler and with git log -S for the removing commit, > and the name is absent from the whole tree at that commit. > > Changes in v3: > - patch 3: name the commit that turned edac_report= into a module > parameter (fee27d7d9788) and the one that removed it (7fc0b9b995f2), > Fixes: tag moved to the latter (Boris) > - the pata_legacy patch is dropped, Ethan's patch from June covers all > six parameters that commit 3c4d783f6922 removed: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260607064053.195166-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com/ > - collect Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags > - the "Found by cross-checking ..." paragraph dropped from the messages I've applied the set, thanks. jon