On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:43:47PM -0700, Abhishek Bhardwaj wrote: > We have tried to steer away from kernel command line args for a few reasons. > > I am paraphrasing my colleague Doug's argument here (CC'ed him as well) - > > - The command line args are getting unwieldy. Kernel command line > parameters are not a scalable way to set kernel config. It's intended > as a super limited way for the bootloader to pass info to the kernel > and also as a way for end users who are not compiling the kernel > themselves to tweak kernel behavior. Why cannot you simply add this option to CONFIG_CMDLINE at your kernel build scripts? > - Also, we know we want this setting from the start. This is a > definite smell that it deserves to be a compile time thing rather than > adding extra code + whatever miniscule time at runtime to pass an > extra arg. This might be a compile time thing in your environment, but not necessarily it must be the same in others. For instance, what option should distro kernels select? > I think this was what CONFIGS were intended for. I'm happy to add all > this to the commit message once it's approved in spirit by the > maintainers. > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 8:18 PM Anthony Steinhauser > <asteinhauser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Yes, this probably requires an explanation why the change is necessary > > or useful. Without that it is difficult to give some meaningful > > feedback. > > > > -- > Abhishek -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
