On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:58:45PM +0200, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> >> Redefine OPT_APPEND to avoid clash with OPT_KEXEC_SYSCALL_AUTO.
> >> Redefine OPT_RAMDISK to avoid such problems in the future
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach at samsung.com>
> >
> > I am slightly concerned that this will break things for users.
> > But OTOH perhaps we already broke things when adding
> > OPT_KEXEC_SYSCALL_AUTO.
> > Do you have any thoughts on this?
> 
> I am aware of this, but the current appears to be broken more. When I
> was using '-a' it didn't work as advertised in the usage message. Short
> *arch* options aren't documented there, so I suppose most people didn't
> use them. ARM is the only architecture that supports short options by
> defining OPT_* as characters. HPPA appears to be using them in the
> optstring (copied from ARM?) but not in OPT_*. Would you like me to
> clean this up too in v3?
> 
> In summary: undocumented, on one platform.
> 
> P.S. Please, cc me. I am not subscribed to the list.

Thanks Łukasz,

I take your point with regards to these features being undocumented.
And I think the extra clean-up you suggest sounds good.
Could you post a v3 with that included?


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