Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] MIPS: Modify mem= and memmap= parameter

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Also to say (in said commit):
> 
> "There's no point to rewrite some logic to parse command line
> to pass initrd parameters or to declare a user memory area.
> We could use instead parse_early_param() that does the same
> thing."
> 
> is IMHO unfair given that the "rewrite" was there in place almost six 
> years before `parse_early_param' even started to exist!  Why do people 
> assume things have always been like they see them at the time they look?

 Self-correction for an incorrect last-moment edit: four years before 
rather than six (`parse_early_param' went in upstream shortly before:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ralf/linux.git/commit/?id=5145764263ab>).

  Maciej