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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2010-03-14 16:28:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2010-03-14 20:58:24 -0400 |
| commit | 4c81ba4900ab4eb24c7d2ba1aca594c644b6ce4c (patch) | |
| tree | 4549d9c5791aa3a9991acba55601f8aa9cab0201 | |
| parent | 8144c880397d502d12af4ef721f3eac50163fa39 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-4c81ba4900ab4eb24c7d2ba1aca594c644b6ce4c.tar.gz | |
ACPI: plan to delete "acpi=ht" boot option
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index a5cc0db63d7a..ed511af0f79a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -582,3 +582,10 @@ Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> ---------------------------- + +What: "acpi=ht" boot option +When: 2.6.35 +Why: Useful in 2003, implementation is a hack. + Generally invoked by accident today. + Seen as doing more harm than good. +Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c index df586bbc9447..7914ab0ad76e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c @@ -1559,8 +1559,10 @@ static int __init parse_acpi(char *arg) } /* Limit ACPI just to boot-time to enable HT */ else if (strcmp(arg, "ht") == 0) { - if (!acpi_force) + if (!acpi_force) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "acpi=ht will be removed in Linux-2.6.35\n"); disable_acpi(); + } acpi_ht = 1; } /* acpi=rsdt use RSDT instead of XSDT */ |