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Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] docs: kernel-parameters: Remove eight entries for parameters that no longer exist

From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: 2026-09-15 19:05:36
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-doc, linux-edac, linux-m68k, linux-omap, linux-samsung-soc

Karl Mehltretter [off-list ref] 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/ (local)
- 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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