From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754961Ab1DGKf1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:35:27 -0400 Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl ([195.241.79.175]:47098 "EHLO smtp-out0.tiscali.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752060Ab1DGKf0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2011 06:35:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Allow for kernel command line concatenation From: Paul Bolle To: oskar.andero@sonyericsson.com Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk, nicolas.pitre@linaro.org, will.deacon@arm.com, eric.y.miao@gmail.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Victor Boivie Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:35:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1302164236-1516-1-git-send-email-oskar.andero@sonyericsson.com> References: <1302164236-1516-1-git-send-email-oskar.andero@sonyericsson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 2.91.92 (2.91.92-1.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1302172525.24493.7.camel@t41.thuisdomein> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:17 +0200, oskar.andero@sonyericsson.com wrote: > +config CMDLINE_EXTEND > + bool "Extend bootloader kernel arguments" > + depends on CMDLINE != "" > + help > + The default kernel command string will be concatenated with the > + arguments provided by the boot loader. This suggests the parameters provided by the boot loader will override corresponding parameters of the default kernel command string. Is that correct (for all possible parameters)? Either way, shouldn't it be documented, perhaps in this help text, what will happen if a parameter of the default kernel command string and a parameter provided by the boot loader somehow conflict? Paul Bolle