From 51e158c12aca3c9ac63988611a97c05109b14dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:34:33 +0930 Subject: param: hand arguments after -- straight to init The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module). This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments are for init. For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog" meaning "fail to boot". If a future versions uses argv[] instead of reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided. eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"' Gives: argv[0] = '/debug-init' argv[1] = 'test' argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true' envp[0] = 'HOME=/' envp[1] = 'TERM=linux' envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo' Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/moduleparam.h') diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h index 204a67743804..b1990c5524e1 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ extern bool parameq(const char *name1, const char *name2); extern bool parameqn(const char *name1, const char *name2, size_t n); /* Called on module insert or kernel boot */ -extern int parse_args(const char *name, +extern char *parse_args(const char *name, char *args, const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b