Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:24:45 +0930 Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
> 
> The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it
> assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module).
> This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments
> are for init.
> 
> For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to
> the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog"
> meaning "fail to boot".  If a future versions uses argv[] instead of
> reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided.
> 
> eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"'
> 
> Gives:
> argv[0] = '/debug-init'
> argv[1] = 'test'
> argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true'
> envp[0] = 'HOME=/'
> envp[1] = 'TERM=linux'
> envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo'

This (user-facing) feature doesn't seem to have been documented
anywhere.  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, I guess.
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