[PATCH v3 0/8] docs: kernel-parameters: Remove eight entries for parameters that no longer exist
Jonathan Corbet
corbet at lwn.net
Tue Sep 15 12:05:23 PDT 2026
Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter at gmail.com> writes:
> kernel-parameters.txt still documents eight boot parameters whose parsing
> code was removed with the drivers or platforms that used them, one of
> them (atarimouse=) since before the git history. There is one patch per
> parameter, with a Fixes: tag where the removal is in git history.
> Each entry was checked with git grep for its __setup(), early_param()
> and module_param() handler and with git log -S for the removing commit,
> and the name is absent from the whole tree at that commit.
>
> Changes in v3:
> - patch 3: name the commit that turned edac_report= into a module
> parameter (fee27d7d9788) and the one that removed it (7fc0b9b995f2),
> Fixes: tag moved to the latter (Boris)
> - the pata_legacy patch is dropped, Ethan's patch from June covers all
> six parameters that commit 3c4d783f6922 removed:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260607064053.195166-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com/
> - collect Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags
> - the "Found by cross-checking ..." paragraph dropped from the messages
I've applied the set, thanks.
jon
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