On 7/14/05, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:56:17AM -0700, NAHieu wrote: > > I dont see how it is called (?) > > It's called in init_main.c:obsolete_checksetup, which uses the starting > address of the .init.setup section __setup_start (as defined in > arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S) to iterate the obs_kernel_param structures. great. Now I see that __setup is used to handle options (of built-in module) passed via command line for kernel. But why they call this "obsolete"? That means it will be removed in the future? (for me that is the meaning of "obsolete" ) Thank you, Clemens. Hieu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
