[PATCH] ARM: Drop CMDLINE_FORCE dependency on !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 15:26, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas at glider.be> wrote:
>
> On older platforms that boot an image with an appended DTB, or where
> the boot loader has no support for updating chosen/bootargs, it is
> common to rely on CMDLINE_FORCE.
>
> While a fixed command line can make the kernel unbootable on other
> platforms, it is not guaranteed to cause that.  E.g. all Renesas boards
> use the same chosen/bootargs in upstream DTS, which works fine if your
> DHCP server hands out proper nfsroot parameters.
>
> Fixes: 84fc863606239d8b ("ARM: make ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM user-visible")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 22f62ad919bfd831..ea8adbf25651438a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -1616,7 +1616,6 @@ config CMDLINE_EXTEND
>
>  config CMDLINE_FORCE
>         bool "Always use the default kernel command string"
> -       depends on !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
>         help
>           Always use the default kernel command string, even if the boot
>           loader passes other arguments to the kernel.
> --
> 2.25.1
>