[PATCH]: Resubmit Fix overloaded use of acpi= on bootline

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 09:26:28 EST


The use of "apic=" on the boot line is overloaded. It is used once to
override the type of genapic, and then later on it is used to determine a debug
level. Because of this a bogus error message is sent to the console when using
the debug option:

Unknown genapic `apic=debug' specified.

This patch changes the genapic situation to use "genapic=".

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index ef2ffde..8cbd90c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -589,6 +589,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file

gamma= [HW,DRM]

+ genapic= [APIC,i386] Select a specific genapic type to be used.
+ Format: <name>
+
gdth= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c.

diff --git a/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c b/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c
index a7b3999..cabe31b 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mach-generic/probe.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static int __init parse_apic(char *arg)
/* Parsed again by __setup for debug/verbose */
return 0;
}
-early_param("apic", parse_apic);
+early_param("genapic", parse_apic);

void __init generic_bigsmp_probe(void)
{
-
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