Chetan Nanda wrote:
Hi All,
I have to pass a new command line parameter to linux kernel at bootup
time, I am using Intel x86 machine.
command line parsing does not depend on arch.
How will I go about this?
I have seen in kernel code many statements like:
__setup("str",fn);
You are asking two things (if I understand correctly)
1. How to add your own variable to kernel (and make use of it)
2. How cmdline args are parsed.
1. write a function
static int __init foobar_handler(char *cmd){}
and use get_options to parse the cmd string.
use the call,
__setup("foo", foobar_handler);
To setup the handler
2.Refer init/main.c, and kernel/params.c
Thanks,
Om.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with
"unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
