On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 06:21 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I think you misunderstand the purpose of parse_early_param? It is > > designed to be called directly by the arch at some point (it is > > idempotent, so the second call in init/main.c does nothing if the arch > > has called it). ie. in i386, it replaces parse_cmdline_early(). > > Ah I didn't realize that. But why is there a second call in init/main.c? > Looks like a big hack to me. Someone was too lazy to add it to all architectures? Yes. Someone == me. I didn't want to hack it into all archs, I wanted archs to actually use it, and you can see that's not a trivial patch... Once all archs use it, we can probably clean up setup_arch() not to take the char** and simply use the global saved_command_line directly. At this rate, that'll be around 2012 8) Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law
