linux-kernel - Re: why 2 Kernel command line and module option parsers

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Message-ID: <480566D4.1080904@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:16 +0800
From:	Shen Feng <shen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why 2 Kernel command line and module option parsers



Chris Snook Wrote:
> Shen Feng wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Now we get two Kernel command line and module option parsers, i.e.
>> lib/cmdline.c
>> lib/parser.c
>>
>> I think we'd better merge them into one and make a kernel option
>> standard since
>> the kernel options become more and more.
> 
> Are you volunteering?
> 
> 

OK. I also found another parser in kernel/params.c.

I will try to supply a new parser and a kernel option standard as
Documentation/kernel-parameter-parser.txt
include/linux/kparser.h
lib/kparser.c

to replace
lib/cmdline.c
lib/parser.c
and part of kernel/params.c
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