On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:30:07AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> When --reuse-cmdline is specified, kexec automatically removes some command
> line parameter that are *known* to break the kexec'd target. That patch
> corrects that behaviour:
> 
>  1. BOOT_IMAGE should be removed always when --reuse-cmdline is specified 
> since
>     it's likely that the kernel is not the same as the running kernel. As only
>     lilo-like bootloaders (i.e. not GRUB) adds that parameter, there's no need
>     to add a BOOT_IMAGE here.
> 
>  2. crashkernel should be only removed when 'kexec -p' is called. For the
>     normal kexec, the crashkernel parameter can be passed as in the
>     running kernel.
> 
> The mistake has been introduced by commit 
> 3c5bb06948881b3e31c783c19edef74275794280
> by myself.

Hi Bernhard,

this change seems fine, however the patch requires your previous patch,
"Implement support for mem command line parameter", which is still the
point of some debate.

Could you rediff this change against the current code in git?

> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
>  kexec/kexec.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
> index 0a8ed32..fee895d 100644
> --- a/kexec/kexec.c
> +++ b/kexec/kexec.c
> @@ -871,10 +871,10 @@ char *get_command_line(int filtered)
>               *(line + strlen(line) - 1) = 0;
>  
>               if (filtered) {
> -                     remove_parameter(line, "crashkernel");
> +                     remove_parameter(line, "BOOT_IMAGE");
>                       if (kexec_flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) {
> -                             remove_parameter(line, "BOOT_IMAGE");
>                               remove_parameter(line, "mem");
> +                             remove_parameter(line, "crashkernel");
>                       }
>               }
>       } else
> -- 
> 1.5.4.5
> 
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Horms


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