Hello from Gregg C Levine Sorry!! Minor typo: " What is the NSS, and how does is it used by VM, and now by the Linux kernel.?" Should read, "What is the NSS, and how is it used by VM, and how 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:LINUX-390@;VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Gregg C Levine > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] NSS-Support for Linux Kernel under VM > > 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:LINUX-390@;VM.MARIST.EDU] 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.
