[PATCH 6/8] CMDLINE: x86: convert to generic builtin command line

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Fri Oct 3 08:38:12 AEST 2025


On Thu, 2025-10-02 at 14:55 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> That's not a bad idea. Or, even if you can pick two amenable
> architectures to start with it will make it really obvious that this is
> useful. Two architectures means a *lot*, IMNHO. Two is a billion times
> better than one.

I think it's a bad idea, if I understand it correctly. The patchset
conceptually patches a mechanism of the kernel as a whole, but one which
just so happens to need to be implemented separately for each arch.
Breaking it down like you suggest creates an embarrassingly high
likelihood of different architectures' implementations of it going out
of sync, a previous situation that this patchset was partly intended to
address. I say keep it atomic. If it breaks on an arch or two but not
others and nobody notices right away, that would be better addressed
with a new patch when someone eventually does notice. Just my 2¢…



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