From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 02:04:33 +0000 (+0930)
Subject: param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.16/fixes-against-rc1~49^2~12
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51e158c12aca3c9ac63988611a97c05109b14dc9;p=pandora-kernel.git

param: hand arguments after -- straight to init

The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it
assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module).
This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments
are for init.

For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to
the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog"
meaning "fail to boot".  If a future versions uses argv[] instead of
reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided.

eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"'

Gives:
argv[0] = '/debug-init'
argv[1] = 'test'
argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true'
envp[0] = 'HOME=/'
envp[1] = 'TERM=linux'
envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo'

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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