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@xxxxxxxxx> Christophe Leroy (7): cmdline: Add generic function to build command line. drivers: of: use cmdline building function powerpc: convert to generic builtin command line cmdline: Add capability to prepend the command line powerpc: add capability to prepend default command line cmdline: Gives architectures opportunity to use generically defined boot cmdline manipulation powerpc: use generic CMDLINE manipulations arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 37 ++----------------- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 35 +++--------------- drivers/of/fdt.c | 23 ++---------- include/linux/cmdline.h | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ init/Kconfig | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/cmdline.h -- 2.25.0