From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95578C35DF5 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAE021927 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:30:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1582626603; bh=UH7mnXQX8TGZmYFmHR4KakrBGZds/E7LEwiWffJij6k=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=wbTsZ9ScYLFJOcT5rZxcIJ/mMt79Nsoc2FSBrT1yY54aGFcLMN7wq9vDWbFeYWCIr n8SMlRDcz+dctEIBp+639l1NHbZryA3xZql3Xa1B2lhIR4Av3r0hFegsA9bIO+2iky tmk2LmBd5tw6eWN6eCOb1wb7P0tXu9fOMq8PZ3tk= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730230AbgBYK37 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2020 05:29:59 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37876 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729698AbgBYK37 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2020 05:29:59 -0500 Received: from devnote2 (NE2965lan1.rev.em-net.ne.jp [210.141.244.193]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BDC1A20714; Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:29:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1582626598; bh=UH7mnXQX8TGZmYFmHR4KakrBGZds/E7LEwiWffJij6k=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=qkv3SvT8Prc7UvYr6MT7wTG9G8meGk6KuBuhQ1BP74jz/+JsREiCcJehdnV3FTKfQ JskiNxhN4naOKqd0eyc2s8rvO9UOVn8MurcmfBQSg2uFu9+kMPoWR59xbjbC7Tjfqc JaWWBGGjgHU4tXzbANp3HSw5qyNictjtRJM92A90= Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:29:51 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu To: Markus Elfring Cc: Steven Rostedt , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Frank Rowand , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ingo Molnar , Jiri Olsa , Jonathan Corbet , Linus Torvalds , Namhyung Kim , Randy Dunlap , Rob Herring , Thomas Gleixner , Tim Bird , Tom Zanussi Subject: Re: [for-next][12/26] Documentation: bootconfig: Add a doc for extended boot config Message-Id: <20200225192951.b7753d3cf31fda2dcaa12fdb@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <8c99a63b-b1b9-a1ba-fa2a-38d1573f18b1@web.de> References: <23e371ca-5df8-3ae3-c685-b01c07b55540@web.de> <20200220221340.2b66fd2051a5da74775c474b@kernel.org> <5ed96b7b-7485-1ea0-16e2-d39c14ae266d@web.de> <20200221191637.e9eed4268ff607a98200628c@kernel.org> <5ade73b0-a3e8-e71a-3685-6485f37ac8b7@web.de> <20200222131833.56a5be2d36033dc5a77a9f0b@kernel.org> <370e675a-598e-71db-8213-f5494b852a71@web.de> <20200223005615.79f308e2ca0717132bb2887b@kernel.org> <8cc7e621-c5e3-28fa-c789-0bb7c55d77d6@web.de> <20200224121302.5b730b519d550eb34da720a5@kernel.org> <25dd284f-6122-c01b-ef22-901c3e0bdf37@web.de> <20200225154903.f636acde809a304bfccf4995@kernel.org> <8c99a63b-b1b9-a1ba-fa2a-38d1573f18b1@web.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:56:41 +0100 Markus Elfring wrote: > >> How do you think about to clarify any additional software design options > >> around involved data structures? > > > > Sorry, what would you mean the "involved data structures" here? > > Would you mean the usage of APIs or when to use bootconfig or command line? > > Additional system boot parameters can be managed also by a single file. > The file format will trigger specific parsing efforts. Maybe. If someone is interested in expanding their command, (e.g. vim) they can use EBNF to understand syntax, or directly reuse lib/bootconfig.c which provides a compact parser. :) Thank you, -- Masami Hiramatsu