[syslinux] Bug: config parser broken in ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c

[H. Peter Anvin]

Kevin Landreth wrote:
> Just a heads up while testing newer versions to work around a hardware
> problem it seems the config file parser is fubar.
> 
> Broken: ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c
> Working: 332a924759efe50e783ad3116ecf17d518dfebe2
> 
> $ git name-rev --tags 332a924759efe50e783ad3116ecf17d518dfebe2
> ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c
> 332a924759efe50e783ad3116ecf17d518dfebe2 tags/syslinux-3.74-pre7~1
> ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c tags/syslinux-3.74-pre7^0
> 
> 
> "append initrd=" and IPAPPEND aren't working anymore.
> KERNEL works fine, but append is missing.
> 
> KERNEL linux.c32 APPEND vmlinuz initrd= does work however, but not with
> IPAPPEND
> 
> I don't know what other features might be broken but I noticed these as they
> are relivant to my environment.  On a side note, for the Dell R710, I needed
> syslinux-3.74-pre3 in order to boot it as the R710 has so many intergrated
> devices that it runs out of memory.
> 

syslinux-3.74-pre7 and -pre8 are completely botched in the command line 
parser department.  However, I presume from what you're saying that is 
broken even afterwards (i.e. ec90083cc6f7513d68807e19f893dbb27d2a45aa 
doesn't fix it for you?)

	-hpa