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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: cmdline: Remove
 CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_BUILTIN_EXTEND
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, Paul Burton wrote:

> CONFIG_MIPS_CMDLINE_BUILTIN_EXTEND is not selected by any of our
> defconfigs, so remove it to simplify the messy command line logic in
> arch_mem_init() a little.

 That sounds like a poor argument for a functional regression to me.  I 
have the option enabled in several configs I have been using just to be 
able to temporarily override any built-in parameters with ones typed from 
the console monitor's prompt.  Is it my mistake that I haven't put it in a 
defconfig?

  Maciej