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Message-ID: <20080306222254.GB8862@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:22:54 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>> i really find it so disheartening at times that people fight trivial
>> usability additions tooth and nail in a _9 million lines of code_
>> kernel with a ... "bloat" argument.
>
> Because they come in one at a time, in a completely disorganized
> fashion (which you yourself complain on further down.)
yeah. I've got a CONFIG_BOOTPARAM patch already, which turns a lot of
boot parameters into .config options. (this is one of our conceptual
holes: for many boot parameters there's no matching .config)
another thing is that i think all parameters should have all their forms
active: so if there's "noacpi", then "acpi=0/1", "acpi=off/on" should
work as well.
furthermore, usability shortcuts for common combinations would be useful
too. Like "serialdebug" could be used as a shortcut for
"earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 console=vga debug".
Things like that would be really cool.
Ingo
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