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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:44:04 +0200
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On Tuesday 01 August 2006 04:41, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:38:39PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Actually, the best thing to do might be to designate a symbol (say &, 
> > like in automount) as "insert the boot loader command line here."
> > 
> > That way you can specify things in the builtin command line that are 
> > both prepended and appended to the boot loader command, and if you wish, 
> > you can emit it completely.
> > 
> > The default would be just "&".
> 
> That idea doesn't suck. I'll take a look at it.

With %s it would be much less code to write.

-Andi