Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 3 authors, 2021-04-20

Re: [PATCH v4 19/20] mips: Convert to GENERIC_CMDLINE

From: Daniel Walker <hidden>
Date: 2021-04-09 01:24:04
Also in: linux-arch, linux-arm-kernel, linux-devicetree, linux-mips, linux-mm, linux-riscv, linux-sh, lkml, sparclinux

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 02:04:08PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:38:36AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
quoted
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:18:21PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
quoted
-config CMDLINE_BOOL
-	bool "Built-in kernel command line"
-	help
-	  For most systems, it is firmware or second stage bootloader that
-	  by default specifies the kernel command line options.  However,
-	  it might be necessary or advantageous to either override the
-	  default kernel command line or add a few extra options to it.
-	  For such cases, this option allows you to hardcode your own
-	  command line options directly into the kernel.  For that, you
-	  should choose 'Y' here, and fill in the extra boot arguments
-	  in CONFIG_CMDLINE.
-
-	  The built-in options will be concatenated to the default command
-	  line if CMDLINE_OVERRIDE is set to 'N'. Otherwise, the default
-	  command line will be ignored and replaced by the built-in string.
-
-	  Most MIPS systems will normally expect 'N' here and rely upon
-	  the command line from the firmware or the second-stage bootloader.
-

See how you complained that I have CMDLINE_BOOL in my changed, and you think it
shouldn't exist.

Yet here mips has it, and you just deleted it with no feature parity in your
changes for this.
AFAICT, CMDLINE_BOOL equates to a non-empty or empty CONFIG_CMDLINE. You 
seem to need it just because you have CMDLINE_PREPEND and 
CMDLINE_APPEND. If that's not it, what feature is missing? CMDLINE_BOOL 
is not a feature, but an implementation detail.
Not true.

It makes it easier to turn it all off inside the Kconfig , so it's for usability
and multiple architecture have it even with just CMDLINE as I was commenting
here.

Daniel
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