Hello from Gregg C Levine Now I'm confused. What is the NSS, and how does is it used by VM, and now by the Linux kernel. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Rick Troth > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] NSS-Support for Linux Kernel under VM > > > To make the bootstrap decide which ones are overrides > > and which are additions is going to be ugly. I'm sure we > > The "bootstrap" does not decide that. > > > could make it very complicated, but we decided to simply > > append the parameters from the IPL statement to what is > > Yes, a simple "append" is probably the best choice. > That is what LILO does, and it seems to work. You get three places > where the parm line is defined: initial (gen by LILO), "appened" > in any LILO stanza, and then whatever is entered at boot time. > > > in the NSS already. Main reason to combine both is that > > the 64 byte from the IPL statement is a bit small. > > Yes, small. But better than what we have now, which is nothing. > > > It's then up to the particular code in the kernel when > > the same parameter occurs twice. > > Yes, just as things are in the LILO case. > May not be perfect, but works well for PCs and would work well here.
