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Commit 4c81ba49 authored Mar 14, 2010 by Len Brown

ACPI: plan to delete "acpi=ht" boot option



Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

parent 8144c880

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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	@@ -582,3 +582,10 @@ Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both
	Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>		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>

arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c

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	@@ -1559,8 +1559,10 @@ static int __init parse_acpi(char *arg)
	}		}
	/* Limit ACPI just to boot-time to enable HT */		/* Limit ACPI just to boot-time to enable HT */
	else if (strcmp(arg, "ht") == 0) {		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();		disable_acpi();
			}
	acpi_ht = 1;		acpi_ht = 1;
	}		}
	/* acpi=rsdt use RSDT instead of XSDT */		/* acpi=rsdt use RSDT instead of XSDT */