Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] MIPS: Modify mem= and memmap= parameter

Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-03-05T20:53:50Z

On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> Also to say (in said commit):
>
> "There's no point to rewrite some logic to parse command line
> to pass initrd parameters or to declare a user memory area.
> We could use instead parse_early_param() that does the same
> thing."
>
> is IMHO unfair given that the "rewrite" was there in place almost six
> years before `parse_early_param' even started to exist! Why do people
> assume things have always been like they see them at the time they look?

Self-correction for an incorrect last-moment edit: four years before
rather than six (`parse_early_param' went in upstream shortly before:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ralf/linux.git/commit/?id=5145764263ab>).

Maciej