From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 11:46:17 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200207114617.3bda49673175d3fa33cbe85e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200206175858.GG9741@zn.tnic>
Hi,
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 18:58:58 +0100
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:41:00PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Oh, you are not the first person asked that :)
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/9/563
> >
> > And yes, I think this is important that will useful for most developers
> > and admins. Since the bootconfig already covers kernel and init options,
> > this can be a new standard way to pass args to kernel boot.
>
> Aha, so Steve and you believe this will become the next great thing
> after sliced bread. Sorry but I remain sceptical. :)
It could change some other things. I recommend developers to use this
feature to configure their subsystem easier and admins to configure
kernel boot options more readable way.
> I would've done it differently: have it default 'n' and once it turns
> out that the major distros have enabled it and *actually* use it, *then*
> simply remove the config option. Like we usually do with functionality.
> Not the other way around.
Many distros may not use it unless it is default y. I couldn't find any
good example that the feature "default n" turns into "default y".
Would you have any example?
> In any case, I've disabled it on my machines and will wait for it
> missing to come back and bite me. :-P
Hmm, what would you afraid of? It is just a small footprint additional
feature which never be enabled without "bootconfig" on the kernel cmdline...
Thank you,
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
--
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-07 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 21:03 [for-next][PATCH 00/26] tracing: Updates for 5.6 Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 01/26] perf: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 02/26] tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 03/26] tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support Steven Rostedt
2020-02-06 11:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-06 14:41 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-06 17:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-07 0:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-07 8:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-07 13:17 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-07 14:28 ` [PATCH] bootconfig: Allocate xbc_nodes array dynamically Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-06 17:58 ` [for-next][PATCH 04/26] bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support Borislav Petkov
2020-02-06 18:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-02-06 22:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-06 22:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-07 8:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-07 2:46 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2020-02-07 11:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-07 15:06 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10 11:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-10 15:10 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10 17:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-11 2:02 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-18 13:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-18 17:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-18 19:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-19 2:26 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-19 2:26 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-19 2:26 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-11 9:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 05/26] bootconfig: Load boot config from the tail of initrd Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 06/26] tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig command Steven Rostedt
2020-02-07 13:02 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-07 13:39 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-07 13:55 ` [PATCH] tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-08 11:10 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-09 4:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-09 13:05 ` [PATCH] tools/bootconfig: Suppress non-error messages Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10 2:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-10 7:18 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-10 9:50 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-02-10 9:50 ` [PATCH] tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage Michael Ellerman
2020-02-10 17:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 07/26] tools: bootconfig: Add bootconfig test script Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 08/26] proc: bootconfig: Add /proc/bootconfig to show boot config list Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 09/26] init/main.c: Alloc initcall_command_line in do_initcall() and free it Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 10/26] bootconfig: init: Allow admin to use bootconfig for kernel command line Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 11/26] bootconfig: init: Allow admin to use bootconfig for init " Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 12/26] Documentation: bootconfig: Add a doc for extended boot config Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 13/26] tracing: Apply soft-disabled and filter to tracepoints printk Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 14/26] tracing: kprobes: Output kprobe event to printk buffer Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 15/26] tracing: kprobes: Register to dynevent earlier stage Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 16/26] tracing: Accept different type for synthetic event fields Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 17/26] tracing: Add NULL trace-array check in print_synth_event() Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 18/26] tracing/boot: Add boot-time tracing Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 19/26] tracing/boot: Add per-event settings Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 20/26] tracing/boot Add kprobe event support Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 21/26] tracing/boot: Add synthetic " Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 22/26] tracing/boot: Add instance node support Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 23/26] tracing/boot: Add cpu_mask option support Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 24/26] tracing/boot: Add function tracer filter options Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 25/26] Documentation: tracing: Add boot-time tracing document Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 21:03 ` [for-next][PATCH 26/26] tracing: trigger: Replace unneeded RCU-list traversals Steven Rostedt
2020-01-14 22:11 ` Steven Rostedt
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