Commit 73a65b3f authored by Uwe Kleine-König's avatar Uwe Kleine-König
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ARM: deprecate support for old way to pass kernel parameters



This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years.

For now provide a kernel parameter for those who still need it.

Acked-by: default avatarEric Miao <eric.miao@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
parent 8d68fe70
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@@ -1374,6 +1374,12 @@ config UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY
	  However, if the CPU data cache is using a write-allocate mode,
	  However, if the CPU data cache is using a write-allocate mode,
	  this option is unlikely to provide any performance gain.
	  this option is unlikely to provide any performance gain.


config DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT
	bool "Provide old way to pass kernel parameters"
	help
	  This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years.
	  Some old boot loaders still use this way.

endmenu
endmenu


menu "Boot options"
menu "Boot options"
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@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_return_address.o = -pg


# Object file lists.
# Object file lists.


obj-y		:= compat.o elf.o entry-armv.o entry-common.o irq.o \
obj-y		:= elf.o entry-armv.o entry-common.o irq.o \
		   process.o ptrace.o return_address.o setup.o signal.o \
		   process.o ptrace.o return_address.o setup.o signal.o \
		   sys_arm.o stacktrace.o time.o traps.o
		   sys_arm.o stacktrace.o time.o traps.o


obj-$(CONFIG_DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT) += compat.o

obj-$(CONFIG_LEDS)		+= leds.o
obj-$(CONFIG_LEDS)		+= leds.o
obj-$(CONFIG_OC_ETM)		+= etm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_OC_ETM)		+= etm.o


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@@ -217,10 +217,3 @@ void __init convert_to_tag_list(struct tag *tags)
	struct param_struct *params = (struct param_struct *)tags;
	struct param_struct *params = (struct param_struct *)tags;
	build_tag_list(params, &params->u2);
	build_tag_list(params, &params->u2);
}
}

void __init squash_mem_tags(struct tag *tag)
{
	for (; tag->hdr.size; tag = tag_next(tag))
		if (tag->hdr.tag == ATAG_MEM)
			tag->hdr.tag = ATAG_NONE;
}
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@@ -9,5 +9,3 @@
*/
*/


extern void convert_to_tag_list(struct tag *tags);
extern void convert_to_tag_list(struct tag *tags);

extern void squash_mem_tags(struct tag *tag);
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@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@
#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/unwind.h>
#include <asm/unwind.h>


#if defined(CONFIG_DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT)
#include "compat.h"
#include "compat.h"
#endif
#include "atags.h"
#include "atags.h"
#include "tcm.h"
#include "tcm.h"


@@ -663,6 +665,13 @@ static int __init customize_machine(void)
}
}
arch_initcall(customize_machine);
arch_initcall(customize_machine);


static void __init squash_mem_tags(struct tag *tag)
{
	for (; tag->hdr.size; tag = tag_next(tag))
		if (tag->hdr.tag == ATAG_MEM)
			tag->hdr.tag = ATAG_NONE;
}

void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
{
{
	struct tag *tags = (struct tag *)&init_tags;
	struct tag *tags = (struct tag *)&init_tags;
@@ -683,12 +692,14 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
	else if (mdesc->boot_params)
	else if (mdesc->boot_params)
		tags = phys_to_virt(mdesc->boot_params);
		tags = phys_to_virt(mdesc->boot_params);


#if defined(CONFIG_DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT)
	/*
	/*
	 * If we have the old style parameters, convert them to
	 * If we have the old style parameters, convert them to
	 * a tag list.
	 * a tag list.
	 */
	 */
	if (tags->hdr.tag != ATAG_CORE)
	if (tags->hdr.tag != ATAG_CORE)
		convert_to_tag_list(tags);
		convert_to_tag_list(tags);
#endif
	if (tags->hdr.tag != ATAG_CORE)
	if (tags->hdr.tag != ATAG_CORE)
		tags = (struct tag *)&init_tags;
		tags = (struct tag *)&init_tags;