Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:48:04 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bootup: Add built-in kernel command line for x86 |
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Tim Bird wrote: > > One difficulty is that the other arches' command lines > are not currently "broken", so there's no real incentive > to change them. > > The only thing novel thing I'm adding here is the addition of > the leading '!' to allow for an override. This is needed > in some x86 cases I'm familiar with, but I've haven't seen > any cases where it would be useful for other arches. > (not to say they don't exist - I just haven't seen them.) >
Note that it could just as easily be done with a CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option, since the initial reason for a magic character was to be able to provide both prefix and suffix splicing.
CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE is probably more palatable to other architectures.
-hpa
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