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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

>> i really find it so disheartening at times that people fight trivial
>> usability additions tooth and nail in a _9 million lines of code_
>> kernel with a ... "bloat" argument.
>
> Because they come in one at a time, in a completely disorganized
> fashion (which you yourself complain on further down.)

yeah. I've got a CONFIG_BOOTPARAM patch already, which turns a lot of
boot parameters into .config options. (this is one of our conceptual
holes: for many boot parameters there's no matching .config)

another thing is that i think all parameters should have all their forms
active: so if there's "noacpi", then "acpi=0/1", "acpi=off/on" should
work as well.

furthermore, usability shortcuts for common combinations would be useful
too. Like "serialdebug" could be used as a shortcut for
"earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 console=vga debug".
Things like that would be really cool.

Ingo


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