[PATCH 0/2] Fix CMDLINE_EXTEND handling for FDT "bootargs"

[Daniel Walker]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 11:26:14AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> +PPC folks and Daniel W
> 
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:42 AM Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 08:19:32AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 6:59 AM Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > We recently [1] enabled support for CMDLINE_EXTEND on arm64, however
> > > > when I started looking at replacing Android's out-of-tree implementation [2]
> > >
> > > Did anyone go read the common, reworked version of all this I
> > > referenced that supports prepend and append. Here it is again[1].
> > > Maybe I should have been more assertive there and said 'extend' is
> > > ambiguous.
> >
> > I tried reading that, but (a) most of the series is not in the mailing list
> > archives and (b) the patch that _is_ doesn't touch CMDLINE_EXTEND at all.
> > Right now the code in mainline does the opposite of what it's documented to
> > do.
> 
> Actually, there is a newer version I found:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/1551469472-53043-1-git-send-email-danielwa@cisco.com/
> https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/1551469472-53043-2-git-send-email-danielwa@cisco.com/
> https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/1551469472-53043-3-git-send-email-danielwa@cisco.com/
> 
> (Once again, there's some weird threading going on)
> 

I'm happy to work with anyone to resubmit the changes. We currently use the
changes in Cisco, and we have used them for many years.

I was planning to update and resubmit since someone has recently inquired about
why it wasn't upstream.

Daniel