[PATCH] POWERPC: idle: fix return value of __setup handler
Randy Dunlap
rdunlap at infradead.org
Tue May 3 01:50:25 AEST 2022
On 5/2/22 06:19, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> writes:
>> __setup() handlers should return 1 to obsolete_checksetup() in
>> init/main.c to indicate that the boot option has been handled.
>> A return of 0 causes the boot option/value to be listed as an Unknown
>> kernel parameter and added to init's (limited) argument or environment
>> strings. Also, error return codes don't mean anything to
>> obsolete_checksetup() -- only non-zero (usually 1) or zero.
>> So return 1 from powersave_off().
>>
>> Fixes: 302eca184fb8 ("[POWERPC] cell: use ppc_md->power_save instead of cbe_idle_loop")
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
>> From: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov at omprussia.ru>
>
> What happened here? Is the patch actually from Igor? If so he should be
> the author, and it should include his SoB shouldn't it?
I don't know what happened. I did the patches.
I'll resend them.
Thanks.
> Same comment for "[PATCH] powerpc/4xx: cpm: fix return value of __setup handler".
>
> cheers
>
>> Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3 at omprussia.ru
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> --- linux-next-20220310.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
>> +++ linux-next-20220310/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
>> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int __init powersave_off(char *ar
>> {
>> ppc_md.power_save = NULL;
>> cpuidle_disable = IDLE_POWERSAVE_OFF;
>> - return 0;
>> + return 1;
>> }
>> __setup("powersave=off", powersave_off);
>>
--
~Randy
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