From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030394AbWHACd7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:33:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030395AbWHACd7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:33:59 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:22995 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030394AbWHACd6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:33:58 -0400 Message-ID: <44CEBD8C.6090208@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:33:48 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Mackall CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line References: <20060731171442.GI6908@waste.org> <200607312207.58999.ak@suse.de> <44CE6AEA.2090909@zytor.com> <200608010017.00826.ak@suse.de> <20060801014319.GO6908@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20060801014319.GO6908@waste.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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