linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init: support preset lpj value as config option

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Message-Id: <20070126024411.4d4b6c2e.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:44:11 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>
Cc:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: support preset lpj value as config option

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:24:59 -0800
Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com> wrote:

> Paul Mundt wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:12:18PM -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
> >> This patch provides a config option for preset lpj, which means
> >> the value can be easily preserved, and conveyed between developers
> >> in a config file.
> >>
> > This seems excessive, it's already possible to set the preset lpj on the
> > kernel command line, and virtually every one of the embedded
> > architectures supports setting the kernel command line as a config
> > option. Is there any reason why you can't simply set it there as a
> > default instead? It's all going to be .config resident in the end
> > anyways.
> 
> i386 is missing CONFIG_CMDLINE support, and this architecture
> is used in embedded.

So if we add CONFIG_CMDLINE we fix this problem and we bring i386 into line
with other platforms.  It's all good.

>  I think many other x86 derivatives are
> also missing .config-based command line support.  CELF has
> worked to get patches submitted to fix this, but so far these
> haven't been accepted.

You have?

<looks at inbox>

To whom?
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