On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:24:20AM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:56:28AM +0530, Ankita Garg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > o Patch to pass reset_devices flag to the second kernel. > > > > Some background why we need this command line parameter. Command line > parameter reset_devices was introduced in kernel versions 2.6.19. The > intention of this parameter is that driver needs to first do a software > reset of the underlying device and then go ahead with rest of the > initialization. > > This will help initializing the devices while second kernel is booting. > That's why we need to pass this parameter to second kernel commandline. > > Though there does not seem to be any user of this parameter so far in > the kernel, I am expecting that down the line we will have. > > Thanks > Vivek
I'm confused still as to why we need to add this code at all? We have the ability to add kernel command line parameters via the initscripts? Why not just add this in there when needed? Neil -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
