Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 04:41, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:38:39PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Actually, the best thing to do might be to designate a symbol (say &, 
> > > like in automount) as "insert the boot loader command line here."
> > >
> > > That way you can specify things in the builtin command line that are 
> > > both prepended and appended to the boot loader command, and if you wish, 
> > > you can emit it completely.
> > >
> > > The default would be just "&".
> > That idea doesn't suck. I'll take a look at it.
>
> With %s it would be much less code to write.

True; it would just mean that the buildin command line would have to 
double %'s, but that's not really a problem.

On the other hand, a single-character substitution loop is hardly complex.

	-hpa
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