[syslinux] Re: pxelinux cmdline preparation for klibc kinit

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri May 19 13:18:40 PDT 2006


Jim Cromie wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jim Cromie wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that the panic=15 came thru, and was appended to afterwards.
>>> Is this intentional, another consequence of minimal string handling, 
>>> or other ?
>>>
>>
>> It's intentional.  As you deduced, the standard rule is "last one 
>> wins", and the entries given by the user on the command lines should 
>> have the highest weight.
>>
>>     -hpa
>>
> 
> WRT double spaces in append being seen by kinit as ' ip=<no-space-string>',
> is that a klibc issue ?

It's a kinit issue (and yes, it's clearly wrong.)  It probably has to do with kinit using 
ipconfig, which is also available as a standalone program.

> I didnt see a klibc-list, do you have a preffered forum for such 
> questions, LKML ?

http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/klibc

It's in the MAINTAINERS file in 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 as well.

	-hpa




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