The recent changes for ip command line processing fixed some problems
but unfortunately broke some common usage scenarios.  In current
2.6.24-rc6 the following command line results in no IP address
assignment, which is surely a regression:

 ip=10.0.2.15::10.0.2.2:255.255.255.0::eth0:off

Please find below a patch that works for all cases I can find.
Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>