Re: + dynamic-kernel-command-line-sparc64-fix.patch added to -mm tree

From: Alon Bar-Lev
Date: Sat Jan 27 2007 - 06:15:36 EST


On 1/27/07, akpm@xxxxxxxx <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
diff -puN drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c~dynamic-kernel-command-line-sparc64-fix drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c
--- a/drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c~dynamic-kernel-command-line-sparc64-fix
+++ a/drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static int oprompath2node(void __user *a

static int opromgetbootargs(void __user *argp, struct openpromio *op, int bufsize)
{
- char *buf = saved_command_line;
+ char *buf = boot_command_line;
int len = strlen(buf);

if (len > bufsize)

Hello Andrew,

I don't think this is correct.
The boot_command_line should only be used by init code.
Drivers should continue to use saved_command_line.

I don't know why saved_command_line cannot be resolved and
boot_command_line can be.
They are both located in linux/init.h

extern char __initdata boot_command_line[];
extern char *saved_command_line;

And the drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c do include it and I assume
__ASSEMBLY__ is not defined.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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