linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line

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Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:46:00 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 04:41, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:38:39PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Actually, the best thing to do might be to designate a symbol (say &, 
>>> like in automount) as "insert the boot loader command line here."
>>>
>>> That way you can specify things in the builtin command line that are 
>>> both prepended and appended to the boot loader command, and if you wish, 
>>> you can emit it completely.
>>>
>>> The default would be just "&".
>> That idea doesn't suck. I'll take a look at it.
> 
> With %s it would be much less code to write.
> 

True; it would just mean that the buildin command line would have to 
double %'s, but that's not really a problem.

On the other hand, a single-character substitution loop is hardly complex.

	-hpa
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