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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, bp@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Make unknown command line param message clearer
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 20:22:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211012202250.54a8db49@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87853d4f-d6f8-1d58-1a07-c8232dae87fd@infradead.org>

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:18:32 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> On 10/12/21 5:01 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:35:23 -0500
> > Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> --- a/init/main.c
> >> +++ b/init/main.c
> >> @@ -925,6 +925,10 @@ static void __init print_unknown_bootoptions(void)
> >>   	for (p = &envp_init[2]; *p; p++)
> >>   		end += sprintf(end, " %s", *p);
> >>   
> >> +	pr_notice("The kernel command line has unknown parameters. They are either\n");
> >> +	pr_notice("misspelled, not valid for the current kernel configuration,\n");
> >> +	pr_notice("or are meant for init but are not after the '--' delineator. They will\n");
> >> +	pr_notice("be passed to init along with those after '--' on the command line.\n");
> >>   	pr_notice("Unknown command line parameters:%s\n", unknown_options);
> >>   	memblock_free(unknown_options, len);  
> > 
> > What about just changing it to simply say:
> > 
> > 	pr_notice("Unknown kernel command line parameters "%s", will be	passed to user space.\n",
> > 		  unknown_options);
> >   
> 
> Yes, that's much more palatable.

Thanks.

Andrew (Halaney, not Morton),

Feel free to send a v2 with the above text, and just add:

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-13  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-12 21:35 [PATCH] init: Make unknown command line param message clearer Andrew Halaney
2021-10-13  0:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-13  0:18   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-10-13  0:22     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2021-10-13 12:56     ` Andrew Halaney
2021-10-13 13:03       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-13 13:10         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-13 22:35 Andrew Halaney
2021-10-13 22:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-10-13 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2021-10-14 12:47   ` Andrew Halaney

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