Re: [PATCH 0/8] add generic builtin command line

Maksym Kokhan
2018-10-08T18:01:28Z

Hi, Daniel

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:17 PM <dwalker@fifo99.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 07:55:08PM +0300, Maksym Kokhan wrote:
> > Daniel Walker (7):
> > add generic builtin command line
> > drivers: of: ifdef out cmdline section
> > x86: convert to generic builtin command line
> > arm: convert to generic builtin command line
> > arm64: convert to generic builtin command line
> > mips: convert to generic builtin command line
> > powerpc: convert to generic builtin command line
> >
>
> When I originally submitted these I had a very good conversion with Rob Herring
> on the device tree changes. It seemed fairly clear that my approach in these
> changes could be done better. It effected specifically arm64, but a lot of other
> platforms use the device tree integrally. With arm64 you can reduce the changes
> down to only Kconfig changes, and that would likely be the case for many of the
> other architecture. I made patches to do this a while back, but have not had
> time to test them and push them out.

Can you please share this patches? I could test them and use to improve this
generic command line implementation.

> In terms of mips I think there's a fair amount of work needed to pull out their
> architecture specific mangling into something generic. Part of my motivation for
> these was to take the architecture specific feature and open that up for all the
> architecture. So it makes sense that the mips changes should become part of
> that.

This is really makes sense, and we have intentions to implement it
afterward. It would be easier to initially merge this simple
implementation and then develop it step by step.

> The only changes which have no comments are the generic changes, x86, and
> powerpc. Those patches have been used at Cisco for years with no issues.
> I added those changes into my -next tree for a round of testing. Assuming there
> are no issues I can work out the merging with the architecture maintainers.
> As for the other changes I think they can be done in time, as long as the
> generic parts of upstream the rest can be worked on by any of the architecture
> developers.

Thanks,
Maksym