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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: fix in-place parameter modification regression
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:06:23 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh7o8ft4.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381601100-5622-1-git-send-email-krzysiek@podlesie.net>

Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net> writes:
> Before commit 026cee0086fe1df4cf74691cf273062cc769617d
> ("params: <level>_initcall-like kernel parameters") the __setup
> parameter parsing code could modify parameter in the
> static_command_line buffer and such modifications were kept. After
> that commit such modifications are destroyed during per-initcall level
> parameter parsing because the same static_command_line buffer is used
> and only parameters for appropriate initcall level are parsed.
>
> That change broke at least parsing "ubd" parameter in the ubd driver
> when the COW file is used.
>
> Now the separate buffer is used for per-initcall parameter parsing,
> like in parsing early params.

How about just removing "strcpy(static_command_line, saved_command_line);"
from do_initcall_level altogether?  We already initialize it in
setup_command_line().

Cheers,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-14  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-12 18:05 [PATCH] init: fix in-place parameter modification regression Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-14  7:36 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-10-14  9:28   ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-14 11:34 ` Pawel Moll
2013-10-14 12:50   ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-14 13:37     ` Pawel Moll
2013-10-18  3:50     ` Rusty Russell
2013-10-18  9:19       ` Krzysztof Mazur
2013-10-21  1:57         ` Rusty Russell

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