Re: [PATCH v3 01/17] cmdline: Add generic function to build command line.

Le 30/03/2021 à 19:27, Daniel Walker a écrit :

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 01:44:48PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:

quoted

This code provides architectures with a way to build command line
based on what is built in the kernel and what is handed over by the
bootloader, based on selected compile-time options.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
---
v3:
- Addressed comments from Will
- Added capability to have src == dst
---
  include/linux/cmdline.h | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)
  create mode 100644 include/linux/cmdline.h

diff --git a/include/linux/cmdline.h b/include/linux/cmdline.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dea87edd41be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/cmdline.h

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _LINUX_CMDLINE_H
+#define _LINUX_CMDLINE_H
+
+#include <linux/string.h>
+
+/* Allow architectures to override strlcat, powerpc can't use strings so early */
+#ifndef cmdline_strlcat
+#define cmdline_strlcat strlcat
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * This function will append or prepend a builtin command line to the command
+ * line provided by the bootloader. Kconfig options can be used to alter
+ * the behavior of this builtin command line.
+ * @dst: The destination of the final appended/prepended string.
+ * @src: The starting string or NULL if there isn't one.
+ * @len: the length of dest buffer.
+ */

Append or prepend ? Cisco requires both at the same time. This is why my
implementation provides both. I can't use this with both at once.

I think it can be added as a second step if dimmed necessary. The feeling I have from all the 
discussion is that it's not what people from the community are looking for at the moment.

Anyway, once all architectures are moved to generic handling, I believe it is then easier to split 
CONFIG_CMDLINE in two configuration items in order to provide both appending and prepending at the 
same time.

I see some concerns about risk of double changes, but I have focussed in changing as little as 
possible the existing configuration items, in order to minimise that.