Re: [PATCH 2/3] kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases

Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-31T14:35:17Z

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 01:55:34PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> We can now handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line, but historically
> some parameters introduced their own command line equivalent, which we don't
> want to remove for compatibility reasons. We can however convert them to the
> generic infrastructure with a table translating the legacy command line
> parameters to their sysctl names, and removing the one-off param handlers.
>
> This patch adds the support and makes the first conversion to demonstrate it,
> on the (deprecated) numa_zonelist_order parameter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

Luis