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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>, barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: ceggers@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootchooser: Change name of kernel parameter
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:31:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <153b40a5-3a31-da30-dfbb-9d2eeb82c426@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200127074639.17310-1-ceggers@arri.de>

Hello Christian,

On 1/27/20 8:46 AM, Christian Eggers wrote:
> When passing the target name as "bootchooser.active", Linux will not
> pass the parameter as environment variable to the init process. The only
> way to get the bootchooser result (e.g. in an initramfs), is to parse it
> out of /proc/cmdline (requires mounting of /proc, sed, ...).
> 
> After renaming, the bootchooser result will be passed as environment
> variable which can easily accessed from /init (e.g. for selecting the
> associated root fs).

Existing userspace like RAUC[1] rely on this naming, so the default may
not be changed.

[1]: https://github.com/rauc/rauc/blob/f52978d9736f18794f7e277ca440e2e4e78c9703/src/context.c#L47

Cheers
Ahmad

> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>
> ---
>  common/bootchooser.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/bootchooser.c b/common/bootchooser.c
> index c08db03eb..f0e3294dc 100644
> --- a/common/bootchooser.c
> +++ b/common/bootchooser.c
> @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static int bootchooser_boot_one(struct bootchooser *bc, int *tryagain)
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> -	system = basprintf("bootchooser.active=%s", target->name);
> +	system = basprintf("bootchooser_active=%s", target->name);
>  	globalvar_add_simple("linux.bootargs.bootchooser", system);
>  	free(system);
>  
> 

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-27  7:46 Christian Eggers
2020-01-27  8:31 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2020-01-27  9:37   ` Christian Eggers

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