From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
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 19:46:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CEC068.9060409@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608010444.04681.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.
>
True; it would just mean that the buildin command line would have to
double %'s, but that's not really a problem.
On the other hand, a single-character substitution loop is hardly complex.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 2:46 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
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 [this message]
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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