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Date:   Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:53:08 -0800
From:   Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
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        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Improve boot command line handling
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:07:45PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 03/03/2021 ? 18:39, Daniel Walker a ?crit?:
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 08:01:01PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > +Will D
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:36 AM Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 05:25:16PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > > > > The purpose of this series is to improve and enhance the
> > > > > handling of kernel boot arguments.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It is first focussed on powerpc but also extends the capability
> > > > > for other arches.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is based on suggestion from Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I don't see a point in your changes at this time. My changes are much more
> > > > mature, and you changes don't really make improvements.
> > > 
> > > Not really a helpful comment. What we merge here will be from whomever
> > > is persistent and timely in their efforts. But please, work together
> > > on a common solution.
> > > 
> > > This one meets my requirements of moving the kconfig and code out of
> > > the arches, supports prepend/append, and is up to date.
> > 
> > 
> > Maintainers are capable of merging whatever they want to merge. However, I
> > wouldn't make hasty choices. The changes I've been submitting have been deployed
> > on millions of router instances and are more feature rich.
> > 
> > I believe I worked with you on this change, or something like it,
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/19/970
> > 
> > I don't think Christophe has even addressed this.
> 
> I thing I have, see https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/3b4291271ce4af4941a771e5af5cbba3c8fa1b2a.1614705851.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/
> 
> If you see something missing in that patch, can you tell me.
 
Ok, must have missed that one.


> > I've converted many
> > architectures, and Cisco uses my changes on at least 4 different
> > architecture. With products deployed and tested.
> 
> As far as we know, only powerpc was converted in the last series you
> submitted, see
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=98106&state=*


Me and others submitted my changes many times, and other architectures have been included. The patch
you submitted I've submitted similar at Rob's request years ago.

Here a fuller submissions some time ago,

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/992768/

You've only been involved in prior powerpc only submissions.

Daniel