Re: Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdup

[Pekka Enberg]

On 12/20/06, Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   set_param_str() cannot use kstrdup() to duplicate the parameter. That's
> fine when the driver is compiled as a module but it sure is not when
> built into the kernel as the kernel parameters are parsed before the
> kmalloc slabs are setup.

Aah. I wonder though, if we could defer parsing driver parameters
until kmalloc caches are up...
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