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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 19:07:45 +0100
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To: Daniel Walker <danielwa@...co.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
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Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Improve boot command line handling
Le 03/03/2021 à 18:39, Daniel Walker a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 08:01:01PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>> +Will D
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:36 AM Daniel Walker <danielwa@...co.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 05:25:16PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>> The purpose of this series is to improve and enhance the
>>>> handling of kernel boot arguments.
>>>>
>>>> It is first focussed on powerpc but also extends the capability
>>>> for other arches.
>>>>
>>>> This is based on suggestion from Daniel Walker <danielwa@...co.com>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see a point in your changes at this time. My changes are much more
>>> mature, and you changes don't really make improvements.
>>
>> Not really a helpful comment. What we merge here will be from whomever
>> is persistent and timely in their efforts. But please, work together
>> on a common solution.
>>
>> This one meets my requirements of moving the kconfig and code out of
>> the arches, supports prepend/append, and is up to date.
>
>
> Maintainers are capable of merging whatever they want to merge. However, I
> wouldn't make hasty choices. The changes I've been submitting have been deployed
> on millions of router instances and are more feature rich.
>
> I believe I worked with you on this change, or something like it,
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/19/970
>
> I don't think Christophe has even addressed this.
I thing I have, see
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/3b4291271ce4af4941a771e5af5cbba3c8fa1b2a.1614705851.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
If you see something missing in that patch, can you tell me.
> I've converted many
> architectures, and Cisco uses my changes on at least 4 different
> architecture. With products deployed and tested.
As far as we know, only powerpc was converted in the last series you submitted, see
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=98106&state=*
>
> I will resubmit my changes as soon as I can.
>
Christophe
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