[patch 1/3 v2] Add function get_bootparam

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Tue Nov 12 19:50:32 EST 2013


On 11/12/13 at 06:51pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:37:25AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 11/12/2013 12:30 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > And these binary data blobs are a "standard" somewhere, and will not
> > > change per kernel version change?
> > > 
> > > If so, that structure is fine with me.
> > > 
> > 
> > Correct.  The structure is documented in Documentation/x86/boot.txt, and
> > has been largely invariant (but extended) since the beginning of Linux.
> >  It has sometimes taken some serious work to keep it that way.
> 
> Ok, then use the binary sysfs file interface for these blobs, and
> everyone will be happy.

Since we got an agreement I will move them to sysfs in next version.

Thanks everyone.



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