Re: [PATCH] phram: make kernel boot command line arguments work

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

On Mon, 17 October 2011 17:40:38 +0200, h-fache@ti.com wrote:
> From: Hervé Fache <h-fache@ti.com>
> 
> This patch is based on Ville Herva's similar patch to block2mtd.
> 
> Trying to pass kernel command line arguments at boot-time did not work, as
> phram_setup() was called so early that kmalloc() was not functional.
> 
> This patch only saves the option string at the early boot stage, and parses
> it later when init_phram() is called. This is determined by the fact that
> init was called, or not.
> 
> With this patch, I can boot with a statically-compiled phram, and mount a
> ext2 root fs from physical RAM, without the need for a initrd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hervé Fache <h-fache@ti.com>

I like it.
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>

Dedekind, can I leave it to you to merge this?  And Hervé, can I
motivate you to remove the #ifdef MODULE parts from block2mtd as well?
If someone complains about increased binary size, I am willing to look
for ten bytes to remove elsewhere as a trade-off.

Jörn

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