From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: Remove special case for simulator command line.
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:51:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141022175104.GB12502@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413845064-30271-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:44:24PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>
> There is no reason to have the kernel to append commands when running
> under the simulator, the simulator is perfectly capable of supplying
> the necessary command line arguments. Furthermore, if the simulator
> needs something different than what is hard coded in the kernel, it
> cannot get it if the kernel overrides it.
>
> Fix/Simplify the whole thing by removing this bit.
And various other platforms have the same issue, usually due to the lack
of a mechanism to pass a command line. I can see why this may be
necessary as a stop gap - but it's still a horrible, horrible solution.
Applied,
Ralf
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2014-10-20 22:44 [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: Remove special case for simulator command line David Daney
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