From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>, eric.ernst@linux.intel.com
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mark.gross@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add kernel parameter for kernel version
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 13:06:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5384F034.8030303@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA5pBb1C7bQE2Od+jamEGr3=hepT-6OVsQFE7GZvU=2_yA@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/27/2014 12:48 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:40 PM, <eric.ernst@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> From: Eric Ernst <eric.ernst@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Create a kernel cmdline parameter, "version_addendum", which can be
>> used to add text to the kernel version that is reported from
>> /proc/version.
>
> Why?
>
> What is the intended purpose of this and why would someone want to use it?
and if the patch were to continue to live, it needs a Documentation addition
to kernel-parameters.txt.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-27 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-27 19:40 [PATCH 1/1] Add kernel parameter for kernel version eric.ernst
2014-05-27 19:48 ` Josh Boyer
2014-05-27 20:06 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2014-06-02 18:41 ` eric ernst
2014-06-05 22:09 ` [PATCH v1 " eric.ernst
2014-06-05 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-05 22:15 ` eric ernst
2014-06-05 22:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-06-05 22:56 ` eric ernst
2014-06-05 23:06 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-06-05 22:30 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-05 22:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-06-05 22:16 ` eric ernst
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