Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:22:54 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter |
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* 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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