From: Imre Kaloz Subject: init: add CONFIG_MANGLE_BOOTARGS and disable it by default Enabling this option renames the bootloader supplied root= and rootfstype= variables, which might have to be know but would break the automatisms OpenWrt uses. Signed-off-by: Imre Kaloz --- init/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++ init/main.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1826,6 +1826,15 @@ config EMBEDDED an embedded system so certain expert options are available for configuration. +config MANGLE_BOOTARGS + bool "Rename offending bootargs" + depends on EXPERT + help + Sometimes the bootloader passed bogus root= and rootfstype= + parameters to the kernel, and while you want to ignore them, + you need to know the values f.e. to support dual firmware + layouts on the flash. + config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS bool help --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -609,6 +609,29 @@ static inline void setup_nr_cpu_ids(void static inline void smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int maxcpus) { } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_MANGLE_BOOTARGS +static void __init mangle_bootargs(char *command_line) +{ + char *rootdev; + char *rootfs; + + rootdev = strstr(command_line, "root=/dev/mtdblock"); + + if (rootdev) + strncpy(rootdev, "mangled_rootblock=", 18); + + rootfs = strstr(command_line, "rootfstype"); + + if (rootfs) + strncpy(rootfs, "mangled_fs", 10); + +} +#else +static void __init mangle_bootargs(char *command_line) +{ +} +#endif + /* * We need to store the untouched command line for future reference. * We also need to store the touched command line since the parameter @@ -957,6 +980,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init __no_sa pr_notice("%s", linux_banner); early_security_init(); setup_arch(&command_line); + mangle_bootargs(command_line); setup_boot_config(); setup_command_line(command_line); setup_nr_cpu_ids();