The scheduled 'time' option removal
authorAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:20:55 +0000 (04:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:22:36 +0000 (09:22 -0800)
The scheduled removal of the 'time' option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
kernel/printk.c

index 17b1659..2ad5c98 100644 (file)
@@ -192,14 +192,6 @@ Who:       Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:  'time' kernel boot parameter
-When:  January 2008
-Why:   replaced by 'printk.time=<value>' so that printk timestamps can be
-       enabled or disabled as needed
-Who:   Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
-
----------------------------
-
 What: libata spindown skipping and warning
 When: Dec 2008
 Why:  Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
index 0dcbd26..a4fc7fc 100644 (file)
@@ -1973,9 +1973,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        <deci-seconds>: poll all this frequency
                        0: no polling (default)
 
-       time            Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
-                       [deprecated, see 'printk.time']
-
        tipar.timeout=  [HW,PPT]
                        Set communications timeout in tenths of a second
                        (default 15).
index 0fb8be6..e95e7c6 100644 (file)
@@ -566,19 +566,6 @@ static int printk_time = 0;
 #endif
 module_param_named(time, printk_time, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 
-static int __init printk_time_setup(char *str)
-{
-       if (*str)
-               return 0;
-       printk_time = 1;
-       printk(KERN_NOTICE "The 'time' option is deprecated and "
-               "is scheduled for removal in early 2008\n");
-       printk(KERN_NOTICE "Use 'printk.time=<value>' instead\n");
-       return 1;
-}
-
-__setup("time", printk_time_setup);
-
 /* Check if we have any console registered that can be called early in boot. */
 static int have_callable_console(void)
 {