From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:22:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:31203 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20041940AbWHIIWK (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:22:10 +0100 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o60so81478nfa for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:22:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=rX6ZQb8ycR9hqXQhjundRoMv5hDRCGjADhru5rhB8aYlvdD3LpYInf5wsSVpamoC2l80DxCPw9D5KUAaDDOVO9e3Jhr9cab0+IlKc5h1tfIiQ7DQjeB1q1jMTHdRgQmC8RFX571V+NntXmvI0d4/GpNwW8OmovpcJhqQnTaDOzQ= Received: by 10.48.210.20 with SMTP id i20mr1029234nfg; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.24? ( [194.3.162.233]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id x24sm1975269nfb.2006.08.09.01.22.01; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44D99B02.1070406@innova-card.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:21:22 +0200 Reply-To: Franck User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Atsushi Nemoto CC: vagabon.xyz@gmail.com, ths@networkno.de, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] setup.c: use early_param() for early command line parsing References: <1155041313139-git-send-email-vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> <20060808125604.GI29989@networkno.de> <44D898FE.7080006@innova-card.com> <20060809.010526.18607898.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20060809.010526.18607898.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Franck Bui-Huu Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 12244 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: vagabon.xyz@gmail.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi Atsushi, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:00:30 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: >>>> NOTE ! This patch also changes the initrd semantic. Old code >>>> was expecting "rd_start=xxx rd_size=xxx" which uses two >>>> parameters. Now the code expects "initrd=xxx@yyy" which is >>>> really simpler to parse and to use. No default config files >>>> use these parameters anyways but not sure for bootloader's >>>> users... >>> This code is there precisely because most mips bootloaders use >>> rd_start/rd_size. >> OK, I guess we have to stick with this weird semantic... > > Maybe you can add something like "initrdmem=xxx@yyy", keeping > "rd_start" and "rd_size" for the backward compatibility. Just a > thought. > Well that what I was planning when writing this patch but I didn't. I think that we will end up with two different semantics and the old one never replaced by the new one... Except if we mark them as deprecated by showing a warning at boot. What do you think ? Franck