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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Morgan Christiansson wrote:

> You could let the user enable/disable it before booting, like this:
> 
> grep no_dma /proc/cmdline>/dev/null || enable_dma()
> 
> or the opposite
> 
> grep no_dma /proc/cmdline >/dev/null && disable_dma()
> 
> Some more advanced syntax could be added too, such as no_dma=hda,hdb but 
> that's problably overdoing it. Shouldn't there be a kernel option for 
> this in the first place anyway?

I didn't know that you could parse kernel options like that.  Thanks for
the tip. :)

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