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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:33:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CEBD8C.6090208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801014319.GO6908@waste.org>

Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>> For generic semantics strcat (or possible prepend) is probably better.
> 
> No, it doesn't work for numerous kernel options that can't be negated.
> 

Anyway, there are four possible behaviours: builtin only, bootloader 
only, buildin+bootloader, and bootloader+builtin.  I believe the last is 
the most appropriate default, but there really is no reason why this 
can't be a four-way configuration option.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31 17:14 [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line Matt Mackall
2006-07-31 17:46 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-07-31 20:07 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-31 20:41   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-31 22:17     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01  1:43       ` Matt Mackall
2006-08-01  2:29         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01  2:33         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-01  2:38         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01  2:41           ` Matt Mackall
2006-08-01  2:44             ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01  2:46               ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01  2:46                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01  2:46             ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01  2:49         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01  1:06 ` Deepak Saxena
2006-08-01  1:18   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01  3:47   ` H. Peter Anvin

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