linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86 built-in command line (resend)

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Message-ID: <20060731192844.GK6908@waste.org>
Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:28:44 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 built-in command line (resend)

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:07:02PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >I'm resending this as-is because the earlier thread petered out
> >without any strong arguments against this approach. x86_64 patch to
> >follow.
> 
> "No strong arguments?"
> 
> I still maintain that this patch has the wrong priority in case more 
> than one set of arguments are provided.

But you still haven't answered how that lets you work around firmware
that passes parameters you don't like.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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