From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v2] x86 boot : export boot_params via sysfs
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:46:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071212174613.GC16049@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197449991.14443.88.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 04:59:51PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> This patch export the boot parameters via sysfs. This can be used for
> debugging and kexec.
>
> The files added are as follow:
>
> /sys/kernel/boot_params/data : binary file for struct boot_params
> /sys/kernel/boot_params/version : boot protocol version
>
> This patch is based on 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and has been tested on i386 and
> x86_64 platoform.
>
> This patch is based on the Peter Anvin's proposal.
As outlined in a previous email, I object to the whole structure being
exported to userspace as a binary blob. Please change that.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 8:59 [PATCH -mm -v2] x86 boot : export boot_params via sysfs Huang, Ying
2007-12-12 17:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-12-12 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-12 18:59 ` Greg KH
2007-12-12 19:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-12 22:21 ` Greg KH
2007-12-12 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-12 22:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-12 23:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-12 22:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
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