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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:31:18 +0200
From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
To: "Tomas Carnecky" <tom@dbservice.com>, "Bernhard Walle" <bwalle@suse.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm
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On 1/18/07, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> If you want to place a variable in a specific section, it must be
> explicitly initialised.  Eg,
>
> static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] = "";
>
> However, there is a bigger question here: that is the tradeoff between
> making this variable part of the on-disk kernel image, but throw away
> the memory at runtime, or to leave it in the BSS where it will not be
> part of the on-disk kernel image, but will not be thrown away at
> runtime.

This patch is a result of trying to extend the kernel command-line
size on x86 to more than 256 bytes. People requested to not allocate a
larger buffers for small systems.

I don't know who should decide the tradeoff...

So what you basically say is that many modules need to be fixed...
./arch/avr32/boards/atstk1000/setup.c
./arch/frv/kernel/setup.c
./arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
./arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
./arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
<many more>

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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