Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit(ping)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 14:57:31 EST


Alon Bar-Lev wrote:

This is not entirely true...
All architectures sets saved_command_line variable...
So I can add __init to the saved_command_line and
copy its contents into kmalloced persistence_command_line at
main.c.


My opinion is that you should change saved_command_line (which already implies a copy) to be the kmalloc'd version and call the fixed-sized buffer something else.

-hpa
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