ARM: deprecate support for old way to pass kernel parameters

This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years.

For now provide a kernel parameter for those who still need it.

Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 1f254bd6c937..a53ac6570b66 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1374,6 +1374,12 @@ config UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY
           However, if the CPU data cache is using a write-allocate mode,
           this option is unlikely to provide any performance gain.
 
+config DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT
+        bool "Provide old way to pass kernel parameters"
+        help
+          This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years.
+          Some old boot loaders still use this way.
+
 endmenu
 
 menu "Boot options"